Howard v. Sheldon

This is an appeal to settle the principles of the case, from a decree overruling a demurrer to an original bill and declining to dissolve a temporary injunction granted thereon. The appellees, who were complainants in the court below, are members of the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi, and the appellants, who were defendants in the court below, are members of the various executive committees, state, district, county, etc., of the Republican Party in Mississippi.

The primary elections law (chapter 111, Code of 1906; chapter 167, Hemingway’s 1927 Code) regulates the calling and…