Immel v. Langley

This ease involves the propriety of a judgment dismissing an election contest after the court, upon a recount, found that two candidates for the office of county supervisor had each received the same number of votes.

At the primary election in June 1958 there were only two candidates for the office of member of the Board of Supervisors of Imperial County from the Fifth Supervisorial District, namely, J. B. Snyder, the incumbent, and Ray B. Langley, the contestee. When the votes were canvassed after the election, it appeared that Snyder had received 774 votes and Langley had received 788 votes.…