State ex rel. Richardson v. Stewart

The application for writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as Secretary of State of the state of *708Montana, to place the names of relator and others upon the official ballot to be used at the election to be held on November 2, 1920, as the candidates for the Farmer-Labor Party for the offices of presidential and vice-presidential electors, came regularly on for hearing. The motion of the attorney general to quash the alternative writ heretofore issued and to dismiss the proceeding is denied, and a peremptory writ is ordered to issue forthwith. The court is of the opinion that, since it…