Relators sought writ of mandamus compelling Ohio Secretary of State and county Board of Elections to sustain a protest and remove an initiative from general-election ballot.
The Supreme Court held that:
- Relators lacked an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law;
- Petition did not violate election law providing that no alterations, corrections, or additions may be made to a petition after it is filed in a public office;
- Petition violated election law requiring that part-petitions that electors sign are the same ones that are later filed with city auditor; and
- Petition did not comply with election law requiring the title of a proposed ordinance to be included on each part-petition presented to electors.