Case Name: State, ex rel. W. R. Eastham et al., relators, v. George W. Dewey, County Clerk, respondent
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1904-11-02
Citations: 73 Neb. 396
Docket Number: No. 14,000
Parties: State, ex rel. W. R. Eastham et al., relators, v. George W. Dewey, County Clerk, respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 73
Pages: 396–409

Head Matter:
State, ex rel. W. R. Eastham et al., relators, v. George W. Dewey, County Clerk, respondent.
Filed November 2, 1904.
No. 14,000.
Original application for a writ of mandamus to compel respondent to place names of candidate's on ballot.
Writ alloiced.
IT. M. Bullirán, A. S. Tibbets and T. J. Doyle, for relators.
E. J. Clements and TI. M. Sinclair, contra.
1. Elections: Nominations: Filling Vacancies. The statute (Comp. St. 1903, sec. 136, ch. 26) provides that a candidate for public office may decline the nomination of a political convention “at least twelve (12) days before the day of election,” and that a nomination to fill the vacancy so occasioned must be filed eight days before the election. The purpose is to allow four days for the proper authorities to make the second nomination. If all parties interested agree to the change of candidates, and the declination of the first nominee and the nomination of his successor are both filed eight days before the election, it is a compliance with the statute, and the name of the second nominee should be placed upon the ballots.

Opinion:
By the Court:
Ordered that the demurrer to the petition for a peremptory writ of mandamus be overruled and that a writ issue as prayed for by the relators. Opinion to be filed hereafter.