Rodgers' Contested Election
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 38, Oct. T., 1911, by C. G. Elwood, from, judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1910, No. 110 in the Matter of the Contest of the Election of John S. Rodgers to the City and County Committee of the Republican Party. Petition in election contest. Before Ford, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The appearance of ballot of the first class referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court was as follows: CITY AND COUNTY COMMITTEE.
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Appeal, No. 38, Oct. T., 1911, by C. G. Elwood, from, judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1910, No. 110 in the Matter of the Contest of the Election of John S. Rodgers to the City and County Committee of the Republican Party. Petition in election contest. Before Ford, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The appearance of ballot of the first class referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court was as follows: CITY AND COUNTY COMMITTEE. The form of ballot of the second class is sufficiently described in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
A primary election was held in the tenth district of the eleventh ward of the City of Pittsburgh on January 4, 1910, at which C. G. Elwood and John S. Rodgers were rival candidates for the city and county committee of the Republican party. The name of the former was printed upon the official ballot in the space designated for that purpose, while that of the latter was not upon the ballot, all of the votes cast for him being inserted either in writing or by stickers. The election board certified seventy-eight votes for Rodgers and seventy-three for Elwood.…
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