Cantuc v. Parr

POPE, Justice.

I respectfully dissent. Article 13.43a, Vernon’s Texas Election Code, is constitutional and the judgment should be affirmed. The majority has ruled that statute unconstitutional on the belief that it denies due process of the law by omitting provisions for notice. This is an interesting conclusion, since before the enactment of that statute in 1957, the law not only failed to provide for notice; it failed to provide for a contest at all with respect to the offices of party precinct chairmen and county chairmen. Wronged persons were wholly without remedy, and that was…