McCreary v. Martin

HINES, Justice.

This is an appeal by Rick McCreary, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Commission Chair of Lamar County, from an order of the Superior Court of Lamar County, inter alia, dismissing his petition to contest the primary election. For the reasons which follow, we conclude that the appeal is properly dismissed as moot.

On July 31,2006, McCreary filed a petition to contest the July 18, 2006, Democratic primary election in which he was one of two candidates ultimately seeking to run for the Lamar County Commission Chair and in which he came in second. The…