Stewart v. Ballot Commissioners

Brannon, President:

E. D. Stewart seeks from this Court a writ of mandamus to compel the ballot commissioners of Ohio county to strike from the column or ticket of the Progressive Party on the ballot shéet to be used in the election on the 5th day of November, 1912, the name of Oliver S. Marshall, as a candidate for the State Senate, and to place the name of Stewart thereon for that position. John H. Evans had been nominated as a Progressive candidate for *247the State Senate; but he resigned his nomination, and thus created a vacancy for that place on the Progressive Party ticket. Certain voters…