Price v. Fitzpatrick
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Payette County. Election contest by S. W. Price and others against J. E. Fitzpatrick^ Henry C. Darlington, Thomas Garrett, W. H. Johnson, T. T. Lewis, S. E. Hester, and Arnold Brabbin.
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Error to Circuit Court, Payette County. Election contest by S. W. Price and others against J. E. Fitzpatrick^ Henry C. Darlington, Thomas Garrett, W. H. Johnson, T. T. Lewis, S. E. Hester, and Arnold Brabbin. Judgment before the town council of Scarbro in'favor of contestants, and case removed by contestees by writ of certiorari to the circuit court, wherein the judgment of the council was reversed, and on trial de novo there was a findingf for contestees, Fitzpatrick and Garrett, and for part of the contestants, and from judgment, contestees, Johnson, Lewis, Hester, and Brabbin, bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
At the election held in the town of Scarbro in the month of January, 1919, the following persons were candidates for the municipal offices of said town on the Citizens Ticket, to-wit: for mayor, S. W. Price; for recorder, Henry J. Smith; and for eouncilmen, V. P. Spradling, C. E. Heerman, L. Douglass, Joseph H. Blake and Charles S. Thomas. These candidates at that time constituted the common council of said town, their terms expiring with the month of January, 1919, and they being candidates for the respective offices they were then filling. At said election the Citizens Labor…
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