State ex rel. Gilchrist v. Weston
Montana Supreme Court
ApplicatioN by the state, on relation of M. P. Gilchrist, for mandamus against John Weston, as county clerk and recorder of Silver Row county, Montana, to compel respondent to place relatoras name on the ballot to be voted at the November, 1902, election, as a Democratic candidate for election as district judge. STATEMENT OP TI-IE CASE. Application for writ of mandamus.
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ApplicatioN by the state, on relation of M. P. Gilchrist, for mandamus against John Weston, as county clerk and recorder of Silver Row county, Montana, to compel respondent to place relatoras name on the ballot to be voted at the November, 1902, election, as a Democratic candidate for election as district judge. STATEMENT OP TI-IE CASE. Application for writ of mandamus. The facts out of which this controversy arose, so far as a statement of them is necessary to present the questions involved, are the following: On Sep-temer 6, 1902, eme G-eorge H. Casey, the chairman of the central committee…
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ME. CHIEF JUSTICE BEAN1TLY,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
At the hearing, counsel for the relator argued that, inasmuch as the controversy between the contending factions in the com•mittee and the party in Silver Bow county had been submitted to and determined by the state convention in favor of the Casey convention, this determination must be regarded as conclusive upon the right of the nominees on the Oasey ticket to have their names appear upon the ballot under the party designation. The contention was also made that, though the judgment of the state convention…
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