Case Name: The State, ex rel. Minor, v. Curtis et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1920-10-22
Citations: 101 Ohio St. 533
Docket Number: No. 16816
Parties: The State, ex rel. Minor, v. Curtis et al.
Judges: Jones, Matthias, Johnson and Wanamaker, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 101
Pages: 533–534

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Minor, v. Curtis et al.
Elections — Insufficient or imperfect nomination papers — Independent candidate for prosecuting attorney- — Supplemental papers.
(No. 16816
Decided October 22, 1920.)
In Mandamus.
Mr. Claude J. Minor and Mr. Smith W. Bennett, for relator.
Mr. John G. Price, attorney general, and Mr. B. W. Gearheart, for respondents.

Opinion:
The court find upon the issue joined for the relator, Claude J. Minor, and that he is entitled to a peremptory mandamus herein.
It is therefore ordered that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue against William J. Curtis, Lewis Engelbry, William J. O'Brien and Silas S. Pritchett, as deputy state supervisors of elections for Erie county, for the performance of the act heretofore alternatively ordered and that immediately upon the service of this writ, they do the act alternatively ordered; to-wit: that they cause to be printed upon the official ballots to be used by the electors of said Erie county, Ohio, as an independent candidate for prosecuting attorney of said county, the name of Claude J. Minor, and that none of the ballots, if any existing, on which the name of Claude J. Minor has not been printed as an independent candidate for prosecuting attorney of said county, shall be distributed to the election officers in any of the precincts of said county.
Writ allowed.
Jones, Matthias, Johnson and Wanamaker, JJ., concur.
Nichols, C. J., and Robinson, J., not participating.