Laney v. Baskin

The Opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Bonham :

In the primary election of August 25, 1942, W. P. Baskin, Jr., Esquire, and N. J. Laney, Esquire, were candidates for the office of State Senator from Lee County. The Democratic Executive Committee for Lee County sat to canvass the votes and to declare the election, and declared W. P. Baskin, Jr., to have received the majority of the votes cast for the office of State Senator for that county and thereupon proclaimed him the nominee of the party. N. J. Laney and others filed a protest against that declaration, and against other…