Legal Opinion

Brown v. State Election Board

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided May 23, 1946No. 32615PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HURST, V.C.J.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus commenced by Easter Brown to compel the respondents, members of the State Election Board, to place his name on the ballot as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives from District No. 2 of Garvin county, at the July, 1946, primary election.

Petitioner alleges that prior to his induction into the Army of the United States he was a registered Democratic voter in Kentucky, where he voted the Democratic ticket in 1941 and also while he was in the military service, and that upon his discharge from the Army in…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Swindall v. State Election BoardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1934
  2. Taylor v. LangleySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941
  3. Love v. State Election BoardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1946
  4. Darst v. County Election Board of Craig CountySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1944

3Cited by35 opinions

  1. City of Duncan v. BinghamSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1964
  2. Capitol Steel & Iron Co. v. FullerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1952
  3. Becknell v. State Industrial CourtSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1973
  4. School Dist. No. 25 v. HodgeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1947
  5. Nelson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1955

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