Leabow v. Jones

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Judgment dismissing contestant Leabow’s petition affirmed. Judgment canceling eontestee Forester’s certificate of nomination affirmed by an equally divided court.

In tfie recent state primary, held August 6, 1927, Isham G. Leabow, D. C. Jones, and J. G. Forester were rival candidates for the Republican nomination for circuit judge in the Twenty-Sixth judicial district of Kentucky, composed of Bell and Harlan counties. On the face of. the returns Forester received 9,589 votes, Jones received 9,406 votes, and Leabow received 211 votes, and the…