Taylor v. Moseley

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Miller.

Affirming.

E. P. Taylor and Jamie Weir were rival candidates for the Democratic nomination for clerk of the Daviess county court in the primary election held on August 2nd, 1913. Taylor was then serving his second term as county court clerk, and formerly had held the office of judge of the county court.

The contest between Taylor and Weir was spirited, and resulted in Weir obtaining a majority of 43 out of a total vote of 5307.

For several weeks before the election it had been rumored that Taylor had made certain remarks in 1911 in criticism of the…