Dehoff v. Imeson

We have been asked to review a final judgment quashing an alternative writ of mandamus, after return duly filed by the respondents and testimony taken. The command of the alternative writ is that the members of the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Jacksonville as and constituting the City Board of Canvassers of Elections of said City be required to convene and issue to relator a certificate of his election to the office of councilman of the fifteenth ward of said City, to fill an unexpired term ending in June, 1943; or to show cause for failure so to do.

Suit was instituted in the…