State ex rel. Ragan v. Junkin

Defendant is secretary of state, and as such was requested to place the name of relator on the primary ballot as a republican candidate for judge of the supreme court at the primary election to be held August 17, 1909, but refused on the ground that compliance would be a violation of the nonpartisan judiciary act passed at the last session of the legislature. Laws 1909, ch. 53. The controversy thus raised was submitted to the district court for Lancaster county, where the act in question was held void as being an invasion of the constitutional right of free assembly, of free speech and of a…