Case Name: WILLIAM W. EVANS, RELATOR, v. JOHN McCUTCHEON, COUNTY CLERK OF PASSAIC COUNTY, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1923-09-14
Citations: 1 N.J. Misc. 440
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILLIAM W. EVANS, RELATOR, v. JOHN McCUTCHEON, COUNTY CLERK OF PASSAIC COUNTY, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 440–440

Head Matter:
WILLIAM W. EVANS, RELATOR, v. JOHN McCUTCHEON, COUNTY CLERK OF PASSAIC COUNTY, RESPONDENT.
[Decided September 14th, 1923.]
Election Laws — Bracketing of Candidates — Designation After Candidates’ Names.
On rule to show cause why mandamus should not issue.
Before Justices Trek chard, Parker and Katzenbach.
For the relator, William W. Evans and William I. Lewis.
For the respondent, Rosenkrans & Rosenkrans and William B. Harley.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We think, in view of the statute (paragraphs 330 and 331, election laws, secretary of state edition), that the relator and his four colleagues in the petition filed August 31st, 1923, at 2:1\5 p. M., cannot be bracketed and cannot have the common designation "Regular Republican," as pra3red by the relator. This cannot be done because, as the county clerk properly decided, that designation had alread3' been taken by five persons who were candidates for election to the five offices in question.
The rule'will be discharged.
The same result is reached in Noonburg v. McCutcheon and also in Meier et al. v. McCutcheon.