Loomis v. Jackson
West Virginia Supreme Court
This is a case of a contested election arising under the provisions of the Code of West Virginia, as found in chapter 6, sections 2 to 14 inclusive, which are as follows: 2. Any person intending to contest the election of another as senator or delegate shall, within twenty-one days after the election in case of delegate, and within forty days after the election in case of a senator, give him notice thereof in writing, and a list of the votes he will dispute, with his…
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This is a case of a contested election arising under the provisions of the Code of West Virginia, as found in chapter 6, sections 2 to 14 inclusive, which are as follows: 2. Any person intending to contest the election of another as senator or delegate shall, within twenty-one days after the election in case of delegate, and within forty days after the election in case of a senator, give him notice thereof in writing, and a list of the votes he will dispute, with his objections to each, and of the votes rejected for which he will contend. If the contestant object to the legality of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, Judge.
In this case, the respondent James M. Jackson who' had been voted for, as a candidate for the office of judge of the 5th judicial circuit, at the election held therein on the 22nd day of August 1872, having been duly certified, by the several boards of supervisors of the counties composing the said circuit, to have received the largest number of votes, was proclaimed, by the governor of the state, duly elected to the office of judge of the said circuit.
The contestant George Loomis who had also been a candidate at the said election for the said office of judge, gave notice to the…
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