Miller v. Pennoyer
Oregon Supreme Court
Marion County: Geo. H. Burnett, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The appellant Harry B. Miller applied to the circuit court of Marion County for a writ of mandamus to the respondents Sylvester Pennoyer and Geo. W. McBride, requiring the respondent Geo.
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Marion County: Geo. H. Burnett, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The appellant Harry B. Miller applied to the circuit court of Marion County for a writ of mandamus to the respondents Sylvester Pennoyer and Geo. W. McBride, requiring the respondent Geo. W. McBride, as secretary of state, to abstain from counting certain votes illegally cast for one Nathan Pierce for presidential elector at the November election, 1892, and further requiring said respondent to count of the votes legally cast only those where the name of the said Nathan Pierce appears but once, in the Peoples’ Party column, and to…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the respondent Geo. W. McBride, as secretary of state, in making the official canvass of the votes cast for presidential electors at the late election, as returned to him by the various county clerks, to abstain from counting certain votes alleged to have been illegally cast for Nathan Pierce, one of the candidates for electors norni*372nated by the People’s Party, in consequence of his subsequent nomination by the Democratic Party and the printing of his name on the official ballot in more than one place, — that is, in both the People’s and the…
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