State Ex Rel. Bumgardner v. Mills

Haymond, President :

On February 14, 1949, the petitioner, Keith 0. Bum-gardner, instituted in this Court this original proceeding in mandamus. The petition prayed that a writ issue to require the defendants, Frank Mills, E. George Smith, and Brent G. Rittenhouse, Commissioners of the County Court of Harrison County, and as such the board of canvassers of that county, to reconvene, set aside its order of December 30, 1948, entered upon a recount, by which the defendant, Fitzhugh Reynolds, was declared to be the duly elected Sheriff of Harrison County, and to enter an order declaring the…