State ex rel. Wells v. Dykeman

Citations

• 70 Wash. 599
• 127 P. 218
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1090

Syllabus

<p>Elections — Nominations—Pbimary Elections — Nominations at Conventions — Effect—Constitutional Law — Civil Rights — Right to Assemble. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 4826, relating to tbe election of precinct, county and state party committeemen, and tbe bolding of party conventions, and providing that a convention shall bave no power to nominate any candidates to be voted for at any primary election, a person nominated at a convention is not thereby disqualified from afterwards becoming a candidate at the September primaries; since to construe tbe law to bave that effect would render it unconstitutional as violating Const., art. 1, § 4, providing that the right of petition and of tbe people peaceably to assemble for tbe common good shall not be abridged.</p>