State ex rel. Metcalf v. Johnson

The petitioner asks for an injunction to restrain the county clerk of Silver Bow county from printing upon the official ballot for that county the nominees of the Citizens Silver party as they appear by the certificates on file with the county clerk of Silver Bow county. Answer was filed and testimony heard by this court. •

The facts in evidence before us are these : On October 1st, 1896, at 8 o’clock p. m., there assembled at the council chamber of the city hall, at Butte, a gathering of twenty or thirty persons, electors of Silver Bow county, Montana. These persons met in response to…