Curry v. Miller

At the election for the year 1868, the appellant and the appellee were respectively candidates for the office of Clerk of Boone county. The board of canvassers declared that Miller had received for the office two thousand four hundred and sixty-three votes, and that Curry had received for the office two thousand four hundred and eighty-seven votes, and that the latter was duly elected to the office by a majority of twenty-four votes.

Miller instituted proceedings before the board of commissioners of Boone county, to contest the election of Curry, on the ground of illegal votes being polled for…