Ellwood City Borough's Contested Election

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

At a municipal election held November 3, 1925, in the Borough of Ellwood City, Lawrence County, D. A. Evans received for the office of burgess 1,624 votes, and Ben G-. ~Swick 1,489 votes, a majority of 135 for the former.. Subsequently a petition of contest was filed in the court of quarter sessions, alleging the election was conducted illegally, and that the returns from the Fourth Ward of the Borough were false and fraudulent. The irregularities charged as having been committed in that ward were: permitting persons to vote whose names were not on the assessor’s…