Tompkins v. Cross

The appellants, Charles H. Tompkins, R. P. Hamby, and Dan Pittman, were candidates in the democratic primary election of August 11, 1936, for membership on the Nevada County Central Committee as committeemen from Missouri Township. On the ticket with appellants as candidate for a similar position, but not adverse to appellants, was S. B. Scott, there having- been four positions to fill.

The names of these candidates were printed on the official ballots. Seventeen electors' scratched these names and substituted A. E. Cross, W. P. Denman, Odell G-arrett and C. C. Harvey.

On August 17, 1936, a…