Mellon v. Goble

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

The two above styled actions have been consolidated and the appeals prosecuted together. The parties, Elige Goble, Bev. Mellon and George Martin Harris, will be referred to by their surnames rather than as appellant and appellee, since the latter terms are confusing in that the same parties are not appellant and appellee in each case.

Goble, Mellon and Harris were rival candidates for the Democratic nomination for jailer of Floyd county, Kentucky, at the late primary election. There were also-fifteen other candidates for that nomination. As…