Brown v. Saunders

William Moseley. Brown filed in this court an original petition for mandamus, averring that he and others, in accordance with section 154 of the Code of Virginia, sixty days before the 8th of November, 1932, filed notices with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, announcing themselves candidates at large in the State for the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States; that the Secretary of the Commonwealth refused to accept such notices, basing his refusal on the ground that the law of Virginia required such offices to be filled by the electors in the different districts, and…