Turner v. Cooper

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Mobile County granting a motion to dismiss the action of election contestants. We affirm.

The City of Prichard held an election on August 10, 1976 to fill, among others, the offices of mayor and five councilmen. All of the plaintiffs, with the exception of Yancina Stallworth Douglas, were candidates for office in that election. Under Tit. 37, § 34 (68), Alabama Code (Recomp. 1958), they initiated a contest of the elections of the defendants who had been declared elected to those offices, alleging numerous separate grounds of contest.

We…