TAYLOR COUNTY COMMISSION v. SPENCER

Nos. 15013, 15020.

285 S.E.2d 656 (1981)

TAYLOR COUNTY COMMISSION v. Merle SPENCER, Lita Bartlett and Elaine Bennett, Ballot Commissioners, Honorable Edward T. Luff, Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit. Helen SPENCER, Rugski Coffmann, Jack Coffmann, Willis Coffmann and Robert L. Duckworth v. Merle SPENCER, et al., etc., Glenn Sapp, President, Taylor County Commission.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

December 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LaVerne Sweeney, Grafton, for petitioner and appellant.

Jones, Williams, West & Jones, Jerald Jones and Lewis A. Clark, Clarksburg, for respondents and appellees.


McGRAW, Justice:

In these two cases, consolidated for decision, the Taylor County Commission appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Taylor County which awarded a writ of mandamus to compel the Board of Ballot Commissioners of Taylor County to place the names of all candidates for the office of County Commissioner on all the ballots to be used in the county at the general election held November 4, 1980, and seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain enforcement...

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