STATE EX REL. BLACKWELL v. TRAVERS

No. 42423.

600 S.W.2d 110 (1980)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Donald G. BLACKWELL, Fred A. Guy, Jr., William 0. Hill, Thomas L. Vetter and John E. L. Brewer, Individually and as the Committee of Petitioners, Appellants, v. John K. TRAVERS, Judy Svetanics, Donald E. West and George T. Mehan, Jr., as the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis, Missouri, Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied May 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome A. Diekemper, Richard Shinners, Diekemper, Hammond & Shinners, Clayton, for appellants.

Joseph L. Niemann, City Counselor, St. Louis, for respondents.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied May 19, 1980.

WEIER, Judge.

This is a suit to compel the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis by mandamus to place an initiative on the ballot at the next general election. The Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis granted an alternative writ of mandamus but subsequently quashed it and this appeal followed. We reverse the judgment of the circuit court and order the writ of mandamus...

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