Landers v. Prather

This is an election contest case growing out of the Democratic Primary election held for a member of the Board of Supervisors of District No. 2 in Franklin County on August 28, 1951. The appellee, Harvey Prather, was declared the Democratic nominee by the Democratic Executive Committee of the county, and Louie Landers, the appellant, filed a contest of the election. The Democratic Executive Committee refused to hear the petition. Landers then filed a petition for a judicial review. A special tribunal was set up as provided by the statute for the hearing of the petition, and after a hearing on…