STATE v. KELLY

No. 10695.

83 S.E.2d 465 (1954)

STATE ex rel. Lester W. WATTS, v. E. W. KELLY, C. B. Vickers and Guy Douglas, Commissioners of the County Court of Fayette County, Sitting as a Board of Canvassers.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided September 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laird & Summerfield, Fayetteville, for relator.

Mahan, White & Higgins, Fayetteville, for respondents.


HAYMOND, Judge.

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the petitioner, Lester W. Watts, seeks to compel the defendants, E. W. Kelly, C. B. Vickers and Guy Douglas, Commissioners of the County Court of Fayette County, West Virginia, sitting as the board of canrassers of that county, to reconvene and correct certain errors alleged to have been committed by the board in recounting ballots cast at the August 1954 primary election, and to reject and refuse to count the...

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