Morgan v. Wilkerson

Wilkerson, the appellee, and Morgan, the appellant were opposing candidates for the office of Trustee of Montgomery Township in Jennings County at the 1930 election. The board of canvassers declared Morgan elected and issued to him a certificate of election, under which he qualified and took possession of the office January 1, 1931. Within ten days after the election in November, 1930, Wilkerson procured a recount of the ballots and filed with the county auditor a contest proceeding (§7613 Burns 1926). The recount commissioners certified that Wilkerson received a majority of the ballots, and…