State ex rel. Blodgett v. Eagan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. At the April election, 1902, in the town of Brookfield, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, the relator and the defendant-were rival candidates for the office of assessor.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. At the April election, 1902, in the town of Brookfield, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, the relator and the defendant-were rival candidates for the office of assessor. At such election the defendant received 153 undisputed ballots, and the relator 152. There were two ballots upon which the name of the defendant was printed, upon one of which the name "3. Blodgett” was written in pencil opposite the printed name of defendant, and upon the other the name “Blod-gett” was so written, hut the printed name…
1Opinion of the CourtBaRdeest, J.
Sec. 799, Stats. 1898, is as follows:
“In the election of town officers and justices of the peace to be chosen by ballot at town meetings each elector shall publicly at the poll deliver to one of the inspectors of such election a single ballot on which shall be written or printed the names of all the persons voted for by such elector, with a pertinent designation of the respective office which each person so voted for may be intended to fill; and no ballot shall contain a greater number of names designated for any office than there are persons to be chosen at such election to fill such office;…
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