State ex rel. Jordan v. Warren Circuit Court

Relator filed his “Petition for Writ of Prohibition and Mandate” seeking to prohibit respondents from proceeding further in a certain election contest in which respondent court has appointed recount commissioners, and requesting that respondents be mandated to strike out and expunge from the records of the Warren Circuit Court an order appointing such recount commissioners.

We issued an alternative writ to which respondents filed their return.

Relator asserts that the “Petition to Contest Election” is not sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon respondent court to order a recount of the ballots…