Hurt v. Bell

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner—

Reversing.

E. P. Bell and I. N. Hurt, as respective nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties, were rival candidates for jailer of Wayne county at the regular election held in November 1937. The latter having received the-majority of votes cast at such election, the election commissioners upon completing a tabulation of the returns made out a certificate of election for him and left it in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the county court clerk.

Thereafter, Bell instituted this contest proceeding alleging in his petition that the…