Carson v. Kalisch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The prosecutor seeks to set aside an order made by a justice of the Supreme Court for a recount of the votes cast at the last general election for candidates for congress in the third congressional district,, comprising Middle-sex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, in which district the prosecutor, Robert Carson, and Thomas J. Scully, the defendant, were congressional candidates, upon the ground, chiefly, that section 159 of the act concerning elections *459(Comp. Stat., p. 2125), under which the order was made, does not confer any power or authority…