Harris v. Textor

This is an election contest involving the Democratic nomination for the office of aider-man in the city of Paragould. In the court below it was tried together with its companion case, Wood v. Brown, also decided today. In the alderman’s race Textor was the apparent winner by a single vote, 1070 to 1069. The circuit court’s judgment increased his margin to three votes, 1058 to 1055.

At the outset we lay aside the appellant’s contentions with reference to the votes of E. L. Wrape, Sr., L. J. Dowdy, Jerry Jones (and Al Weisberger), Eugene Penney, and Dwight Pranger and his wife. Those issues were…