Donovan v. Comerford

The circuit court of Cook county sustained a demurrer to a petition of Andrew Donovan to contest the election of Prank D. Comerford as judge of the superior court of Cook county at the June election, 1927, dismissed the petition and entered judgment against the petitioner for costs, and the petitioner has appealed.

The right to contest an election is given and controlled wholly by statute and is confined exclusively to an elector of the State, judicial division, district, county, town or precinct for which the person whose election is contested has been declared elected, and a petition to…