Fields v. Nicholson

Appellant was the plaintiff and appellee the defendant in an action to contest a township election. They were rival candidates for the office of township trustee of Baker township in Martin county. Plaintiff received 140 votes and defendant 178 votes, and the board of election commissioners declared defendant elected and issued him a certificate of election. But within the time allowed for contesting the election plaintiff filed with the board of commissioners a complaint alleging that he and defendant were the only candidates for the office of township trustee at the election, that plaintiff…