State Ex Rel. Bigelow v. Butterfield

By the Court.

Relators, who are regular nominees on the Democratic ticket at the primaries under the provisions of Section 4785-69, General Code, claim the right to be nominated again under Section 4785-91, General Code, as a group of candidates with a separate party designation, and thereby have their names appear not only in the Democratic party column on the ballot, but also in a separate column. "We concur in the reasoning by Jones, J., in State, ex rel. Patterson, v. Schirmer et al., Board of Elections, 129 Ohio St., 143, 194 N. E., 13.

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