# State ex rel. Bargahiser v. Board of Elections

> Ohio Supreme Court · May 1, 1968 · 14 Ohio St. 2d 129

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6753992

## Case

- **Full name:** The State, ex rel. Bargahiser v. Board of Elections of Richland County The State, ex rel. Bloor v. Board of Elections of Richland County
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 1, 1968
- **Citations:** 14 Ohio St. 2d 129; 43 Ohio Op. 2d 238; 237 N.E.2d 133; 1968 Ohio LEXIS 430
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Brown, Herbert, Matthias, Neill, Schneidee, Taft, Zimmerman
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Per Curiam.
These are actions in mandamus originating in this court. Belators seek to compel the respondent board of elections to place their names on the ballot as candidates for the office of member of the Bepublican County Central Committee at an election to be held on May 7, 1968. The respondent board of elections found certain part-petitions of the relators to be invalid and refused to certify relators’ names as candidates for office and refused to order their names printed on the ballot.
Bespondents filed demurrers to the petitions in mandamus on the ground of laches. The demurrers are well taken. No later than February 17, 1968 (the final date for protests), both relators knew of respondents’ refusal to certify their candidacies. On February 22,1968, the official forms of the ballot were certified by the board of elections. Instead of promptly seeking the judicial relief to which they claim to be entitled, relators delayed until April 15, 1968, before bringing any action in any court, at which time relators brought the instant actions in this court.
*130 Having unjustifiably delayed seeking judicial review of their claims until three weeks before the primary election, relators’ laches are fatal to their causes. State, ex rel. Friedlander, v. Myers (1934), 128 Ohio St. 568 , 192 N. E. 737; 35 Ohio Jurisprudence 2d 289, Section 40.
Writs denied.
Taft, O. J., Zimmerman, Matthias, O’Neill, Herbert, SchNeidee and Brown, JJ., concur.

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