Buten v. Clark

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner —

Reversing.

William C. Buten and William P. Clark were rival candidates for the office of judge of the Campbell county court. Buten received the certificate of election and qualified. Clark filed this contest and was adjudged to have been elected, and from that judgment Buten has appealed. The facts out of which this contest grew will be found in the ease of Wolff v. Clark, 212 Ky. 435, 279 S. W. 658. After the decision of that case, on December 23, 1925, a certificate of election was issued to Buten, under which he qualified. Clark began this contest…