Johnson v. White

This is an election contest over the office of superintendent of public instruction in Hardin county. Chapter 635 of the Private Acts of 1911 provides for the election of such officer every four years by popular vote of the electorate. Johnson was elected to that office in 1932, and was a candidate to succeed himself in the August, 1936, election, being opposed by the defendant, White. Johnson claims that he received 1,901 legal votes and White 1,806 votes in said election; that the election commissioners, after manipulating the returns, wrongfully excluded the ballots cast in 6 voting…