State ex rel. Lockhart v. Rogers

I can not agree to the decision in this proceeding which awarded a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to place the names of the petitioners on the official ballot used at the regular municipal election held in the City of Welch on June 6, 1950, and to appoint certain designated persons as election officials to represent the Democratic party at that election. As I am thoroughly convinced that the writ should have been refused, I record my emphatic dissent.

I accept as substantially correct the legal pronouncements in these quoted statements in the majority opinion: “The right to vote and…