State ex rel. Harte v. Moorhead
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original proceeding in mandamus to compel respondent, as election commissioner, to place the name of relator on the primary ballot as candidate for county commissioner.
1Opinion of the CourtSedgwick, J.
By chapter 150, Laws 1913 (Rev. St. 1913, sec. 979), it was provided: “Counties having more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants, shall be divided into five districts numbered respectively one, two, three, four and five, and shall consist of two or more voting precincts, comprising compact and contiguous territory and embracing, as near as.may be possible, an equal division of the population of the county, and not subject to alteration oftener than once in four years.”
In 1915 (Laws 1915, ch. 19) the legislature enacted a statute entitled “An act to amend section 979, Revise^…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- People ex rel. Woodyatt v. ThompsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Giddings v. BlackerMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
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