Byrd v. Wright

This appeal involves a contest of the election for County Judge in Scott County on August 6, 1942. Under the provisions of section 2116 of the Code, the bill was filed by Roscoe Byrd before the Honorable J.H. Wallace, Chancellor of the Second Chancery Division against the defendant, C.W. Wright, for the purpose of asserting that complainant was lawfully elected to the office of County Judge in the General Election of 1942, and challenging the claim of the defendant that he was elected to said office on the face of the returns. Under the aforesaid provision of the Code the Chancellor sat as a…