People Ex Rel. Lindstrand v. Emmerson

This is an original petition for mandamus seeking to compel the State primary canvassing board to certify the petitioner as a nominee of the republican party for the sixth senatorial district as a candidate for the office of representative in the General Assembly, to appear on the ballot at the general election held November 6, 1928. Petitioner alleges that he made a demand on the Secretary of State to issue to him a certificate of nomination, and that such demand was refused on the ground that the senatorial committee of the republican party for the sixth senatorial district had filed in the…