State Ex Rel. Preiss v. Seibel

filed in this court a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the respondent, Clerk of the County Court of St. Louis County, to print the names of petitioners and others upon the official ballot at the ensuing election to be held in said county on November 7th, as candidates of the Clean Elections Party. An alternative writ was issued as prayed, returnable instanter.

Omitting formal parts reciting the places of residence and qualifications of the petitioners and of the several candidates, the petition avers:

“Petitioners state that William Seibel is the Clerk of the County Court of St. Louis…