Velvin v. Kent

It has not been made to appear that the court below was in error in finding that a majority of the qualified electors of Hempstead county voted to remove the county seat to Hope, and for that reason I concur in the holding that the judgment should be affirmed.

I do not concur in the. reasoning by which the majority have reached that conclusion. The majority say that “section 2 of act 123 of 1935 (carried into Pope’s Digest as § 4693 thereof) furnishes a.proper test to determine who are electors.” But that test was not applied. Had it been, many of the 3,169 names appearing on the collector’s…