Dial v. Hollandsworth

Brannon, President,

(dissenting).

OFFICERS DE JURE AND DE FACTO — STATUTES MANDATORY AND DIRECTORY — IRREGULARITIES in Elections.

I dislike to differ with the inajoi’ity of the court, but my views of the recently passed election law, its spirit, design and future usefulness, are such, and the points in which its provisions were violated in this case are so vital to its efficacy in future, and the decision tends to tolerate such looseness in its execution, and the questions involved in the case are of such general importance, that I can not give my assent to that decision.

At the election in 1892,…