Gross' Adm'x v. Couch

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

William Couch contested the nomination of A. M. Gross as the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Perry County at the August, 1941, primary election. Because the regular judge of the Perry Circuit Court was engaged in another county in his district, Honorable H. Clay Kaufman, of Lancaster, was designated as a special judge to try the contest. After a hearing and submission of the case, Judge Kaufman took the case under consideration and went home after entering ' an order for a transcript of the evidence to be made. He later prepared an…