Davenport v. Olerich
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Carroll District Court. — Hon. Z. A. Church, Judge. Election contest for the office of county attorney. From judgment declaring the incumbent entitled to the office, the contestant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The board of supervisors, as county canvassers, found Olerich duly elected to the office of county attorney of Carroll county at the general election of 1896. This finding was contested by Davenport, and the court of contest, organized under the statute, decided that Davenport had received more votes than Olerich, and was entitled to the office. Ole-rich appealed to the district court, where it was held “that the ballots offered in evidence in this cause were preserved so carelessly as to expose them readily to fraudulent alterations, abstraction, substitution and destruction; and that the…
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