Ladd v. Holmes
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Melvin C. G-eorge, Alfred F. Sears, Jr., and John B. Cleland, Judges, sitting in joint session. This is a suit by Wm.
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From Multnomah: Melvin C. G-eorge, Alfred F. Sears, Jr., and John B. Cleland, Judges, sitting in joint session. This is a suit by Wm. M. Ladd, Fred H. Page, John Bain, and Finlay McKercher, citizens, electors, and taxpayers of Multnomah County, to restrain H. H. Holmes, the county clerk, from attempting to enforce the provisions of two statutes passed by the last legislature (Laws, 1901, pp. 317 and 401), called the Morgan Primary Law and the Lockwood Primary Law, respectively. After a hearing the court sustained the objections to the Morgan act, but upheld the Lockwood act, whereupon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolyerton
This is a suit to enjoin the Clerk of the County Court of Multnomah County from incurring any pecuniary liability in behalf of the county under the acts passed by the legislative assembly at its last session for the regulation of primary elections within the City of Portland, known as the Morgan and Lockwood acts; the evident purpose being to test the constitutionality of both acts. The circuit court declared the Morgan act invalid, but sustained the other, and the plaintiffs appeal.
The defendant not having appealed, there are left for our consideration the questions presented .as they have…
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