Tuck v. Cotton

This suit was brought by the appellee, Cotton, in the Phillips Circuit Court to contest the certification of the nomination of the appellant, Tuck, as a central committeeman from the First Ward of West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas. It was alleged that the contestant received 74 votes and the contestee 66 votes in said ward, but that the contestee, although receiving onty 66 votes as against 74, had been certified as the committeeman from this ward.

It is first contended that the court had no jurisdiction, because it is argued that the committeemen are not public officers, and that 'the…