Reed v. State Ex Rel. Davis

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal is from the judgment of the circuit court granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the appellants to count, tabulate, and make proper return of the votes cast for the relator, Davis, in precinct 27, Mobile county, for the office of justice of the peace of said precinct in the general election of November, 1936.

The petition avers and the proof shows that two justices of the peace were due to be elected in said election for' said precinct; that there was but one candidate on the official ballot, which so far as here pertinent was in the following form:

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