Taylor and Marshall v. Beckham
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATF OF KENTUCKY. This was an action in the nature of quo warranto brought, under the statutes of Kentucky, by J. C. W. Beckham against William S. Taylor and John Marshall, for usurpation of the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in that Commonwealth.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATF OF KENTUCKY. This was an action in the nature of quo warranto brought, under the statutes of Kentucky, by J. C. W. Beckham against William S. Taylor and John Marshall, for usurpation of the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in that Commonwealth. The petition averred that at a general election held on the 7th of November, 1899, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, William Goebel was the Democratic candidate for Governor and J. C. W. Beckham was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
It is obviously essential to the independence of the States, and to their peace and tranquility, that their power to prescribo the qualifications of their own officers, the tenure of their offices, *571the manner of their election, and the grounds on which, the -tribunals before which, and the mode in which, such elections may be contested, should be exclusive, and free from external interference, except so far as plainly provided by the Constitution of the United States.
And where controversies over the election of state officers have reached the state courts in the manner provided by, and been…
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