State Ex Rel. Vining v. Gray

This cause is before us on petition for alternative writ of mandamus whereby it is sought by relator to have this Court enter its judgment requiring R. A. Gray as Secretary of State to direct the election officials of the Thirteenth Senatorial District to place the name of the relator on the Democratic primary election ballots to be used in the primary election of May 2nd 1944, in said District as a candidate for the office of state senator when one D. C. Coleman had theretofore qualified as a candidate for such office subject to the action of the Democratic primary election.

The petition…