Dexter Nomination Petition

HENDERSON, P.J.,

—Petitioner in this matter, being a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Lawrence County, petitioned the court to decree that the two nomination petitions filed by one of petitioner’s opponents, Ward H. Dexter, be held to be defective and be set aside.

At hearing, petitioner based his objections to the petition of Ward H. Dexter on one ground, that being that the petitions, on their face, revealed that a number of signatures of the electors were obtained on the petitions subsequent to the date of the affidavit taken by the candidate on each petition, and the affidavit taken…