State ex rel. Metzger v. Brown

This is an action in mandamus to compel the Secretary of State to appoint one Carl Whitaere as a Republi*71can member of the Clinton County Board of Elections for a regular term commencing March 1, 1964, and ending February 29, 1968.

This appointment was recommended to the Secretary of State, as contemplated by the Ohio statute, by a group of persons who considered themselves to be a majority of the Clinton County Republican Executive Committee, acting in a properly called meeting of that committee held January 23, 1964, presided over by the vice-chairman of such committee. In accordance with…