State ex rel. Bourgeois v. Laizer
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Hancock county. HoN. Tiiaddeus A. Wood, Judge. The state, ex. rel., Bourgeois, appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; Laizer, appellee, was defendant there. The opinion states the case.
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From the circuit court of Hancock county. HoN. Tiiaddeus A. Wood, Judge. The state, ex. rel., Bourgeois, appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; Laizer, appellee, was defendant there. The opinion states the case. The section of the code discussed by counsel is as follows: “3052 (400). Failure to qualify avoids election. — If any person elected to any office shall fail to qualify as required by latv, on or before the day of the commencement of his term of office, a vacancy in such office shall occur thereby, and it shall be filled in the manner prescribed by law for filling vacancies…
1Opinion of the CourtTisrbax, J.
This is a contest by the relator, Olns M. Bourgeois, against Edwin Laizer for the mayoralty of the town of Waveland, Hancock county; the relator alleges that on the first Tuesday of August, 1898, an election was held in said town at which he and Edwin Laizer were opposing condidates for mayor; that said election was duly held, and that the commissioners of election made a return to the mayor and aldermen of said town stating therein that the relator had received thirty votes, and Edwin Laizer had received thirty-one votes for mayor; that said return was false and fraudulent; and that in fact…
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