State Ex Rel. Baker v. Bailey

Berry, President:

These consolidated cases involve proceedings in mandamus filed under the original jurisdiction of this Court by the petitioners C. R. Baker, Ernest L. Hager and Rex W. Smith, as citizens and taxpayers of the Twelfth, Seventh and Thirteenth Senatorial Districts of West Virginia respectively, against Robert D. Bailey, Secretary of State of West Virginia, against the ballot commissioners from each county comprising the particular Senatorial Districts involved in each proceeding and against Robert G. Phillips, Don C. Elkins, and Joseph B. Lightbum, the Republican nominees in the…