State ex rel. Weaver v. Wiethe

The charter of Cincinnati (Section 4, Article IX) requires that “all separate papers comprising a nominating petition shall he assembled and filed * * * as one instrument # # (Emphasis supplied.) Confronted with this explicit direction, relator attempted to circumvent it. Learning of the insufficiency of his original petition, he sought to withdraw it so that he might again assemble and file the separate papers thereof, together with other separate papers containing additional signatures sufficient to meet the minimum number required.

Failing this, relator’s principal contention now is that by *3…