Clark v. Robinson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

— Affirming.

Clark, as Republican, and Robinson, as Democrat, were the nominees and candidates of the two dominant parties in Carter County at the last election for the office of superintendent of common schools. Mrs. Shay was the candidate of the Progressive party. The election commissioners canvassed the returns from the several precincts of the county, and there were nineteen of them, and it showed that Clark had, on the face of the returns, a plurality of eighteen votes over Robinson. Thereupon the commissioners issued and awarded to Clark a certificate of…