Davenport v. Teeters

RUARK, Judge.

This case, which has been transferred here by the Supreme Court, is an appeal by *508the contestant from the order of the court below sustaining the contestee’s motion to quash and dismiss notice of election contest, and dismissing the same, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. A chronological statement of events shown by the record and agreed in the briefs is as follows:

A municipal election was held for the office of city marshal in the city of Parma, Missouri, on April 7, 1953. On April 11 there was an official canvass of the ballots and the respondent, who will be herein…