Case Name: STATE ex rel. CORMICK v. RAMSEY et al.
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1911-03-22
Citations: 27 S.D. 302
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE ex rel. CORMICK v. RAMSEY et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Dakota Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 302–303

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. CORMICK v. RAMSEY et al.
Since Pol. Code, §§ 1988-2000, relating to election contests, provide an adequate and speedy remedy for the' determination of election contests, certiorari will not he granted to compel the certification of the return and ballots in a local option election, to determine whether they were properly counted. Code Civ. Proc. § 754, permitting a writ of certiorari to be granted where there is no plain and adequate remedy.
(Opinion filed March 22, 1911.)
Appeal from Circuit Court, Sanborn County. Hon. Eranic B. Smith, Judge.
Certiorari by the State, on the relation of E. W. Cormick, against S. A. Ramsey and others. From an order granting a motion to set the writ aside, and a judgment dismissing the proceeding and awarding costs, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Joe Kirby (T. J. Spangler, of counsel), for appellant. A. B. Hitchcock and L. L. Lawson, for respondents.

Opinion:
HANEY, J.
This special proceeding was commenced by the service of a writ commanding the defendants to certify the returns and ballots of an election held in the city of Woonsocket, April 19, 1910, on the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors. Such writ was based on an affidavit wherein it was alleged that enough votes, which should have been counted in favor of the sale, to change the result, had been rejected as defective by the judges of the election. Upon defendants' motion the writ was set aside, the proceedings dismissed, and judgment for costs and disbursements entered, from which order and judgment the plaintiff appealed.
The proceedings was properly dismissed. A writ of certiorari may be granted by the circuit court when an inferior court, officer, board, or tribunal has. exceeded its jurisdiction, and "there is no writ of .error or appeal, nor, in the judgment of the court, any other plain, speedy and adequate remedy." Rev. Code Civ. Proc. § 754. Plaintiff was afforded a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy by the provisions of the statute relating to election contests. Rev. Pol. Code, § 1988-2000; Treat v. Morris, 25 S. D. 615, 127 N. W. 554.
The order and judgment appealed from.are affirmed.