Spencer v. Griffith
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Petition in the supreme court to compel respondent, as county auditor for Cass county, to place petitioner’s name on the official ballot as a candidate for county commissioner, or to show cause why this should not be done.
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
The petitioner alleges that he was duly nominated by the People’s party as a candidate for county commissioner of the county of Cass, and filed his nominating certificate, but that the county auditor refuses to put his name on the official ballot. An order to show cause was issued to the auditor by me under G. S. 1894, § 48.
*56The auditor in his return states that Cass county was organized under Laws 1897, c. 99, and in May, 1897, the governor appointed five certain named persons as county commissioners for the term of four years each, pursuant to that act; that they qualified and entered on the…
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