State ex rel. Leal v. Jones

In July, 1861, Elias T. Crosby was auditor of Dearborn county, Indiana. On the 17th day of that month, he abandoned the office and removed from the State.

At the annual election, in October following, William Leal became a candidate for the office of auditor of Dearborn county, and received eleven hundred and twenty-eight votes, being the highest number cast for a candidate for that office; but the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county, Samuel L. Jones, refused, within twenty days, and still refuses, to certify the vote for the candidates for the office of auditor, at said election, though…