State ex rel. Olson v. Scott
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Petition by a qualified elector within the Forty-Fourth election district, who received at the primary elections the third highest number of votes cast for candidates for election as representatives from that district, for an order directing the auditor of Hennepin county not to print the name of Alex McNeil, who at the same election received the second highest number of votes cast, upon the official bal lot to be used at the general election on November 3, 1908, on the…
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Petition by a qualified elector within the Forty-Fourth election district, who received at the primary elections the third highest number of votes cast for candidates for election as representatives from that district, for an order directing the auditor of Hennepin county not to print the name of Alex McNeil, who at the same election received the second highest number of votes cast, upon the official bal lot to be used at the general election on November 3, 1908, on the ground that McNeil was disqualified for and ineligible to the office because he was a representative from that district and…
1Opinion of the Court
On October 13, 1908, the following opinion was filed:
2Per curiam
This case was heard upon an order requiring the respondent Hugb R. Scott, as county auditor of the county of Hennepin, to show caustj why he should not be prohibited from placing and printing the nannl ■of the respondent Alex McNeil upon the official ballot at the nexi ■general election as a candidate of the Republican party for the officl ■of representative of the Forty-Fourth legislative district, and, furtherl why he should not be directed to place the name of the relator, C. Ol *515Alexius Olson, on such ballot as such candidate, on the…
3Cases cited3 opinions
- Lauritsen v. SewardSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Whaley v. BayerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- State ex rel. Slater v. ScottSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
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