State Ex Rel. 25 Voters v. Selvig

Taylor., C.

At the general election held in November, 1926, the respondent, C. G. Selvig, was a candidate for election as representative in Congress from the Ninth congressional district in this state and received a majority of the votes cast for that office. Thereafter some 40 of the voters of that district made an application to the district court of Polk county for an order requiring respondent to show cause why he should not be adjudged disqualified for election to that office, alleging as the ground therefor that he had violated the corrupt practices act of this state in that during the…