Jacobs v. Ryals

This is an appeal from a judgment in an election contest ordering that another election for mayor of Loxley, Alabama, be held. We affirm.

Jack Ryals and Jacob "Jake" Jacobs were candidates in the July 8, 1980, Loxley mayoral race; Ryals was the apparent winner of the election, receiving 206 votes to Jacobs's 204 votes. Jacobs contested the election, alleging inter alia that the vote of Larry Goodman was illegally cast and counted for Ryals because Goodman is a convicted felon; that the votes of Judy, Paul, Cledis and Virgie Peterson were illegally cast and counted for Ryals because none of the…