Dearborn Township Clerk v. Jones

This is an appeal by defendants from a declaratory decree in which it was ordered that each of the defendants be certified as a candidate for nomination for office, at the ensuing primary election, on only 1 party ticket.

Petitions were filed with William H. Thorne, the township clerk, by defendant Howard F. Jones as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the office of township supervisor. Later a group of citizens presented petitions for J ones for nomination oil the ticket of the Republican party. Similar groups filed petitions on behalf of defendant Robert Claude Jendron for…