Riter v. Douglass
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Ormsby County; F. P. Langan, Judge. Action by Henry Biter against W. G. Douglass, Secretary of State. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Ormsby County; F. P. Langan, Judge. Action by Henry Biter against W. G. Douglass, Secretary of State. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion'. As said by the Supreme Court of the State of California in discussing a similar law: " There is at once to be perceived an express limitation upon the powers of political parties, which hitherto they have exercised, of adopting their own modes for the election of their candidates. It is a part of the political…
1Opinion of the Court
*410By the Court,
Sweeney, J.:
The effect of this appellate proceeding is to test the constitutionality of the law commonly referred to and known as the "Direct Primary Law” enacted March 23, 1909. (Stats. 1909, p. 273.) On the 23d day of February, 1910, the appellant herein, a taxpayer and qualified elector of the State of Nevada, instituted an action in the First Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for the County of Ormsby, against the respondent to restrain him from expending any money required to be expended or entering into any contracts required to be entered into under and…
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