Parker v. Brown

This is an original mandamus proceeding by which relator, Dudley Parker, seeks to compel the respondents, J. Burns Brown, Chairman of the Smith County Democratic Executive Committee, and the remaining members of the Committee, to certify his name to the County Clerk of Smith County, Texas, as a candidate for County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3, of said county in the democratic primary to be held on May 4, 1968. In his petition, relator avers that on the 5th day of January, 1968, he filed his application with J. Burns Brown, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, seeking to have his…