State ex rel. Shaffer v. Bowman

Ryan, C.

This application for a mandamus was filed April 8,1890. The relator in his petition alleged that the city of Alma in the year 1890 was a city of the second class, containing more than one thousand inhabitants; that said city was made up of three wards; that on the-first Tuesday of April, 1890, the relator was a candidate for the office of councilman of the first ward and received the same number of votes as did the candidate opposing him; and that the respondents, who were judges of the election in the said ward, had duly delivered to the city clerk of Alma the ballots cast and poll…