Alderson v. Commissioners

Brannon, Judge :

John I). Alderson presented to the judge of the eighth circuit a bill in equity stating in effect, that at the election in this state on November 6, 1888, he received a large number of votes for representative in the Congress of the United States for the Third district of this state; that the opposing candidate was James II. MacGinnis, who received a large number of votes for the same position ; that the result of the election in each county of said district except Kanawha had been certified to the governor; that either ho or Mac-Ginnis had been elected ; that the result…