State ex rel. Bancroft v. Frear
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This suit is brought originally in this court to compel the-defendant to certify the name of the relator to the different county clerks of the state as the candidate to be placed upon the official ballot of the Republican party for the office of attorney general, to be voted for at the general election to beheld in November, 1910. The complaint alleges that a primary election was held in Wisconsin on September 6, 1910; that more than thirty days prior to the holding of such…
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This suit is brought originally in this court to compel the-defendant to certify the name of the relator to the different county clerks of the state as the candidate to be placed upon the official ballot of the Republican party for the office of attorney general, to be voted for at the general election to beheld in November, 1910. The complaint alleges that a primary election was held in Wisconsin on September 6, 1910; that more than thirty days prior to the holding of such election, the relator and Erank T. Tucker and Henry A. Gunder-son each duly filed in the office of the secretary of…
1Opinion of the Court
*84On October 15, 1910, the following decision and dissent were filed:
Pee Curiam.
The following propositions are decided in this case:(1) The provisions of the general election law contained in sec. 34, Stats. (1898), relating to the filling of vacancies cansed by the declination, death, or other disability of a nominated candidate, are not imported into the primary election law and hence do not apply to primary elections.(2) Under the allegations of the complaint it must be held that the fact of the death of Mr. Tucker was brought home to the knowledge of the great mass of the electors of the…
2Cited by35 opinions
- State ex rel. Bolens v. FrearWisconsin Supreme Court · 1912
- State ex rel. La Follette v. KohleeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1930
- Hanson v. GrattanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911
- Heney v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1918
- Madden v. Board of Election CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
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