Chappell v. Colson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

By this action in equity brought in the Bell circuit court the appellee, M. Gr. Colson, contested the right of the appellant, J. S. Chappell, to qualify and act as a member of the city council of Pineville, Bell county, this state; to which office the latter claimed to have been elected from the fifth ward of that city at the November election 1919.

According to the canvass of the ballots and certification of the result made by the board of election commissioners, appellant was found to have received twenty-five and appellee twenty-four votes for…