Glascock v. Lyons

Glascock sued Lyons, averring that he was duly elected to the office of sheriff of Fountain county, at the October election in the year 1856, and entitled to the certificate *2of election, and commission, and to be qualified and receive the fees, &c., as such sheriff’; but that said Lyons, by deceitful, false, and fraudulent means and practices, secured to himself a certificate of election to said office, and was commissioned and qualified, which facts were found to be true at the February term of the Fountain Circuit Court for the year 1858; that the defendant, on the 23d of December, 1856,…