Twombly v. Smith
Supreme Court of Colorado
Upon Review from the District Court of Arapahoe County. Actioh commenced in district court by petitioner, to review the ruling of respondent on the contest between two sets of nominees of the Silver Republican party for the county of Arapahoe.
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Upon Review from the District Court of Arapahoe County. Actioh commenced in district court by petitioner, to review the ruling of respondent on the contest between two sets of nominees of the Silver Republican party for the county of Arapahoe. Judgment sustaining this ruling, with the modification that the nominees adjudged by respondent entitled to appear upon the official ballot should be designated separrate and apart from the state ticket, so that the state and county tickets can be voted separately. In 1897 John D. Fleming was regularly selected by the central committee of the Silver…
1DissentCampbell, C. J.
If the sole proposition involved was which of the rival conventions was the regularly constituted convention of the party, and if this was stripped of all other considerations affecting the real question before us, and arising out of what *431has occurred after the conventions adjourned, I would not he inclined to review the findings of fact on which its solution would mainly depend, were it not for these subsequent facts, because the evidence on which the findings were made by the trial court was conflicting. But the decision of the highest .authority of the party in the state regularly had, and…
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- In re RedmondNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Smith v. HarrisSupreme Court of Colorado · 1893
- In re CowieNew York Supreme Court · 1890