Lay v. Parsons

This is a contest under section 1111 of the Code of Civil Procedure, involving the right of the parties thereto to the office of supervisor in district No. 1 in Santa Cruz county. The contest involved simply a question as to which of the parties had received the highest number of legal votes for that office at the general election in November, 1892, and the trial, as is usual in such instances, consisted substantially in a recount of the ballots from the precincts comprised within the supervisor district. The court found that the respondent had received three hundred and seventeen votes, and…