
    BAKER vs. BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS,
    No. 15970;
    69 N. W., 656; 3 D. L. N., 683.
   To compel respondents to obtain corrected returns, and to make tire proper credits to certain candidates for office, ‘where the answer shows that if all the votes were credited, as prayed for, it would not affect the result.

Held, that the writ should not be issued to compel the performance of an idle ceremony.

Denied December 24, 1896.  