State ex rel. Crawford v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Motion for writ of Mandamus. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. I. The law presumes that the Board of Canvassers, under the election laws, meeting to canvass the returns of an election, know what officers arc to be elected, by such vote, and they will rightfully only canvass the votes for such officers.
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Motion for writ of Mandamus. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. I. The law presumes that the Board of Canvassers, under the election laws, meeting to canvass the returns of an election, know what officers arc to be elected, by such vote, and they will rightfully only canvass the votes for such officers. They are not, by law, authorized to canvass votes for other officers. 1,1. There was no law authorizing an election of Grover nor in the fall of 1861. 1. The law of the State, fixing the time of the election of the first Governor of the State under and in conformity…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Ewing, C. J.
The relator, George A. Crawford, has shown the Court, prima facie, by affidavit, that, at the general election in 1861, votes were cast for him for the office of Governor at most of the election districts in this State, in conformity with the provisions of the law regulating the mode of conducting elections, approved May 23d, 1861, and that he received a majority of all the votes then cast in the State for that office, and that returns of the votes so cast were duly made by the proper officers of the several counties to the defendants, the Board of' State Canvassers,…
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