Cain v. Garvey
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Liberty County; L. B. Hightower, Judge. Action by Ed Garvey and others against 0. H. Cain, County Attorney. Judgment for the plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtConley, C. J.
This suit was instituted by appellees to contest the local option election held in commissioners’ precinct No. 3, Liberty county, on the 29th day of December, 1915, in substance upon the grounds that the ballots used in two of the voting boxes were not official ballots furnished by the clerk of the county court of Liberty county, as provided by law, but were ballots furnished by some other persons in confederation with the active Prohibition party in said precinct, and that they were fraudulently and wrongfully inserted in the election boxes with the election supplies; that such ballots were…
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