Dowden v. Benham

This is an appeal from a judgment in an election contest that the appellee, at the general election held in Greene County on November 4, 1952, was elected to the office of County Commissioner for the Second District of said county, for a term of three years from the first day of January, 1953. The finding was that the contestee, appellee herein, received 7,857 legal votes, and that the contestor, appellant, received 7,803 legal votes at said election. The judgment was entered on April 18, 1953, and the transcript was filed in this court August 17, 1953. On August 31, 1954, appellant’s reply…