State ex rel. Casper v. Piper

This was an application by C. D. Casper, as chairman of the democratic congressional committee for the fourth congressional district, for a writ of mandamus to determine the right of the secretary of state to certify to the several county clerks of said district the name of R. E. Dunpliy as the democratic nominee for congress from such district. Like the two other cases decided herewith, the controversy grows out of the fact that two rival *41factions of the democratic party have made and filed separate certificates of nomination for said office. The validity of the nomination of Mr. Dunphy…