Withers v. Kerr

THE COURT.

Mandate to compel the respondent as registrar of voters of Los Angeles County to omit from the ballot to be used at the ensuing general election the name of William E. Hinshaw as a candidate for representative in Congress for the eighteenth congressional district in California.

William E. Hinshaw was not a candidate for any office at the primary election of August 30, 1932. On September 29, 1932, he filed in the office of the respondent registrar nomination papers for the purpose of placing his name upon the general election ballot as an independent candidate for said office in the…