Hodges v. Murray

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

This is an election contest brought to us by J. P. Hodges (the Democratic nominee) who complains that the appellee, Eugene Murray (the Republican nominee), was erroneously adjudged to have been elected justice of the peace of the Hickory Flat district in Warren County, Ky., at the general election held Tuesday November 5, 1929. The board of election commissioners met to canvass the returns of this election on Friday November 8, 1929, they worked that day, finished the tabulation the next day, and, skipping Sunday and Monday, completed their…