State ex rel. Chandler v. Howell

The term of Judge J. Stanley Webster, as. a justice of the supreme court of this state, would expire on January, 1921. In May, 1918, he resigned his position on the bench and became a candidate for the office of representative in Congress for one of the Congressional districts of this state, and filed with the secretary of state his declaration of candidacy. The relator seeks to enjoin the printing of Judge Webster’s name on the ballot for the primary election, contending that he is rendered ineligible to hold the office of representative in Congress by article 4, § 15 of the state…