State Ex Rel. Copenhaver v. Jack

OPINION

Kimball, Chief Justice.

This is an action brought originally in this court for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of State to certify to the county clerks of the various counties the nomination of the relator as the Republican candidate for the office of Secretary of State to be voted for at the general election to be held November 7, 1944.

Mart T. Christensen, who in the year 1942 was elected Secretary of State for the term beginning the first Monday in January, 1943, and ending the first Monday in January, 1947, died October 12, 1944, twenty-six days before the date of the next…