Thompson v. Chapin
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, District Court, Rosebud County; George A. Eorkan, Judge. Primiary Election contest by C. E. Thompson against George M. Chapin. From a judgment dismissing the contest, contestant appeals. Appellant contends that the primary election is not an election. All of the states, so far as we have been able to discover, have followed this rule.
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Appeal from, District Court, Rosebud County; George A. Eorkan, Judge. Primiary Election contest by C. E. Thompson against George M. Chapin. From a judgment dismissing the contest, contestant appeals. Appellant contends that the primary election is not an election. All of the states, so far as we have been able to discover, have followed this rule. This has become so well established in the jurisprudence of this country that so eminent a work as Ruling Case Law holds that the ruling cases of this country are to the effect that a primary is not held to afford an elector as such a chance to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Galen
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the contest made by C. E. Thompson, the appellant herein, of the election of George M. Chapin as the nominee of the Republican party in Rosebud county for the office of sheriff of that county at the general election to be held in November, 1922. Both were regularly qualified candidates for nomination to such office on the Republican ticket at the primary election held in Montana and in Rosebud county on August 29, 1922. The appeal is *381from the judgment, presented upon the judgment-roll, including therein an agreed statement as to the facts, embodied…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Bowers v. SmithSupreme Court of Missouri · 1892
- Stackpole v. HallahanMontana Supreme Court · 1895
- State ex rel. Brooks v. FranshamMontana Supreme Court · 1897
- Carwile v. JonesMontana Supreme Court · 1909
- Lane v. BaileyMontana Supreme Court · 1904
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- Walker v. JuniorSupreme Court of Alabama · 1945
- State Ex Rel. Wolff v. GeurkinkMontana Supreme Court · 1941
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