Lydick v. Chairman of the Dallas County Republican Executive Committee

BATEMAN, Justice.

The relators have with our permission filed their original application for declaratory judgment, for mandamus and for injunction. The relator Howard Lydick avers that, being a voter in the Republican Party primary election of May 2, 1970, he wrote in the name of a qualified person as a candidate for the office of Attorney General of Texas, that being an office printed on the ballot. The relator Larry G. Slay avers that he was also a voter at the same primary election and wrote in the name of an office not printed on the ballot, to-wit, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place…