Kerr v. Flewelling

The city of Harvey is organized under the general City and Village act. April 16, 1907, a city election was held in that city. The ballot voted contained six tickets, appel-lee being a candidate for mayor on the republican citizen ticket and appellant a candidate for the same office on the anti-machine ticket. On the returns being canvassed by the city council it was found that 473 votes had been cast for appellee and 475 votes for appellant, each receiving a higher number of votes than any of the other candidates for said office. Appellant was thereupon declared elected to the office of…