Odegard v. Olson

I concur in the result.

Inasmuch as I was the author of the court’s opinion in Youngdale v. Eastvold, 232 Minn. 134, 44 N. W. (2d) 459, which stated among other things that (232 Minn. 139, 44 N. W. [2d] 462) “our courts have no jurisdiction over the election of representatives to congress,” I feel that some explanation of my present views are in order. That statement was taken largely from Williams v. Maas, 198 Minn. 516, 270 N. W. 586, and State ex rel. 25 Voters v. Selvig, 170 Minn. 406, 212 N. W. 604. Read literally, it is too broad a statement.

U. S. Const, art. I, § 4, which provides that…