State ex rel. Graybill v. Tipton

*146The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This was a proceeding in mandamus, on behalf of the state, to require a county clerk to place on the general election ballot as a Republican nominee for county commissioner the name of a person who had received “write-in” votes at the August primary sufficient to give him the nomination. Judgment was for the state, and the county clerk appeals. In view of the public interest involved, the appeal was heard as an emergency matter soon after it was filed on October 30, 1948, and was then promptly considered and announcement made that the judgment…