Bingham v. Broadwell

Ames, C.

This is an appeal from a decision by the district court of a. contest of an election to the office of clerk of the district court for Douglas county. The first ground of contest is the claim that in the first precinct of the fifth ward of the city of South Omaha the ballots were indorsed by a judge and clerk of election instead of by two judges. It was held by this court in Orr v. Bailey, 59 Neb. 128, and again in Mauck v. Brown, 59 Neb. 382, and is generally *606held in other jurisdictions, that the statutory requirement of indorsement is mandatory, and the subject is not regarded as…