McCluney v. Stembridge

Almand, Justice.

It is contended that no legal petition was filed with the ordinary on which she had jurisdiction to lawfully compute the necessary requirement that the petition contain 35% of the registered voters of the county. It is contended that the total number of names appearing on the list of registered voters filed with the clerk of the superior court, being a list of those entitled to vote in the general election of 1948, was 7822, and that the ordinary, in calculating the number as constituting a legal petition, accepted the signatures of 661 persons whose names appeared on separate…