Swain v. . McRae
Supreme Court of North Carolina
APPLICATION for a Mandamus, heard at Fall Term, 3878, of Brunswick Superior Court, before Buxton, J. The plaintiff alleged be had been re-elected clerk of the said court on the first Thursday in August, 1878, and demanded that the defendants, board of county canvassers, be ordered to reassemble and count the votes Of Town Creek township as returned by the judges of election, and add them to the votes of the other townships in the county, and proclaim the result of tlie…
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APPLICATION for a Mandamus, heard at Fall Term, 3878, of Brunswick Superior Court, before Buxton, J. The plaintiff alleged be had been re-elected clerk of the said court on the first Thursday in August, 1878, and demanded that the defendants, board of county canvassers, be ordered to reassemble and count the votes Of Town Creek township as returned by the judges of election, and add them to the votes of the other townships in the county, and proclaim the result of tlie election for clerk of the superior court. Defendants demurred to the complaint and the court sustained the demurrer. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The object, of this suit, commenced on the 16th day of August last, against the members of the board of county canvassers, is to compel them to re-assemble and make a recount of the vote cast for superior court clerk in Brunswick county, including the rejected return from Town Creek township. The process, originally returnable before the judge of the district at Fayetteville, in Cumberland county, on exception to the jurisdiction taken and sustained, was amended by making M. C. Guthrie a co-defendant, and the summons returnable before the superior court of Brunswick in term time, and was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Moore v. . JonesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
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