Kincaid v. Berg

HANSON, J. pro tem.*

This is an appeal from a judgment in an election contest which cancelled a certificate of election issued to the appellant by the Board of Supervisors of San Benito County and adjudged that neither the appellant nor the respondent had been elected at the primary election.

At the primary election in June 1958 there were only two candidates for the office of member of the Board of Supervisors of San Benito County from the Fourth Supervisorial District; they were appellant Berg and the respondent Kincaid. After a canvass of the votes, the hoard of supervisors concluded that…