Lowe v. Lindsey

Niohols, Justice.

Wyman C. Lowe, as the runner-up in the Democratic primary for the office of U. S. Congressman for the Fifth District of Georgia, held on September 14, 1966, filed the present action after the party nominee withdrew from the race and the Fulton County Democratic Executive Committee named Archie Lindsey, who had not been a candidate for such nomination in the primary, as the official nominee of the party to run in the general election in November, 1966. The petition as originally filed sought to have the plaintiff declared the party nominee, and a substitute petition filed as…