State Ex Rel. Blaize v. Hoover, Judge

This is a petition for a writ prohibiting the respondent from enforcing a temporary restraining order, restraining the relators from acting in the capacity of officers of the Knox county democratic central committee, and from sitting, or attempting to sit, in a meeting for the election of a democratic district chair man. Upon the filing of the petition, a temporary writ issued.

It must be considered as settled that courts of equity have no jurisdiction to try disputed questions concerning the organization and functioning of political parties, nor to pass upon the qualifications of their…