Bowen v. Williams

This is an election contest wherein the appellee was the Democratic nominee for Supervisor of District No. 2 of Grenada County, Mississippi, as the result of the primary elections held in 1959. The appellant did not qualify as a candidate in the primary elections since he overlooked or failed to pay the necessary fee to get his name placed on the ballot. After the first and second primary elections had been held and the appellee, George Williams, had become the nominee, a petition was filed with the election commissioners signed by more than fifteen qualified electors asking that the name of…