Taylor v. Board of Canvassers

Riley, Judge:

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel respondents, Clyde Boner, president, and Thomas W. Cannon and J. Frank Junkins, commissioners of the county court of Mineral County, and as such constituting the board of canvassers of said county, to reconvene as such board and to correct certain alleged errors in the official canvass of the vote, cast November 3, 1936, for the office of prosecuting attorney, and to declare relator, Harry R. Taylor, duly elected to said office.

On the morning after the election, relator, upon the face of the unofficial tabulation of returns from the…