Adair v. Cable

HALLEY, V.C.J.

The parties will be referred to according to the positions they occupied in the trial court, the reverse of their positions in this court.

Joe R. Cable was elected city marshal of the city of Lawton, Oklahoma, on April 4, 1949, and was the Democratic nominee for the same position at the general election held in the city of Lawton on April 3, 1951. N. C. (Newt) Adair, the defendant below, filed for the Republican nomination for city marshal in March, 1951, and no other person filed for the Republican nomination, and Adair was issued a certificate of nomination to said office by…