Morrison v. Buttram

The bill was filed to contest the election of the defendant to the office, of Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, and in the alternative to have him declared ineligible to hold the office. It shows that on the face of the returns from all the counties of the circuit, complainant received 7,229 votes and defendant 7,575 votes. Then follows the statement that:

“"While there were many irregularities in some of the voting places and irregularities in some precincts of such flagrant character, as petitioner believes and avers rendered the election in said precincts absolutely void, yet as the…