Election of Assessor in Gearhart Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 393, Jan. T., 1898, by M. F. Gulick, from order of Q. S». Northumberland Co., upon petition in election contest. Petition in election contest alleging that eleven illegal ballots were counted by the board of election for M. F. Gulick, for the office of assessor, and that if said eleven ballots had been rejected Theodore Robinson would have had a majority, and he should, therefore, have been declared elected. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 393, Jan. T., 1898, by M. F. Gulick, from order of Q. S». Northumberland Co., upon petition in election contest. Petition in election contest alleging that eleven illegal ballots were counted by the board of election for M. F. Gulick, for the office of assessor, and that if said eleven ballots had been rejected Theodore Robinson would have had a majority, and he should, therefore, have been declared elected. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The disputed ballots were in the following form: “ A Cross (X ) Markedin the Square at the right of The Name of Each…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Stebbett,
Appellant’s contention is that the eleven contested ballots— a correct sample of which is attached to his answer in this proceeding—are strictly legal, and that the court below erred in rejecting them as illegal, and in decreeing that Theodore Robinson is duly elected assessor of Gearhart township, etc.
It appears that at the general election for township officers in February, 1898, one person was to be elected to serve as as*449sessor in said district. The appellant, M. F. Gulick, was the republican candidate and Theodore Robinson the democratic candidate. The…
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