Dickinson v. Van Horn

This was a proceeding before the County Court, in which the election of defendant, as clerk of Shasta county, was contested by the plaintiff. According to the certified returns from the several election precincts, the defendant received one thousand and seventy-eight, and the plaintiff one thousand and seventy-seven votes, and thereupon the certificate of election was granted *210to the defendant. Upon the trial, the Court rejected fourteen votes, as illegal, from the votes counted for the defendant, and twelve from those counted for the plaintiff, leaving the plaintiff a majority of one. The…