State ex rel. Catlin v. Galligan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Ashland county: G-. N. Risjoed, Circuit Judge. Action of quo warranto to try title to tbe office of chairman of tbe town of Barksdale and tried in tbe court below without a jury, a jury trial having been duly waived.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Ashland county: G-. N. Risjoed, Circuit Judge. Action of quo warranto to try title to tbe office of chairman of tbe town of Barksdale and tried in tbe court below without a jury, a jury trial having been duly waived. Tbe court found as follows: That at the spring election of 1917 in tbe town of Barks-dale, Bayfield county, tbe relator and defendant were candidates for chairman, the defendant being a candidate for reelection; that tbe canvassing board certified that the relator had received sixty votes at said election and the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewiN, J.
The controversy here is over the legality of the votes of' thirteen of the so-called guards employed at the Dupont plant. The inspectors found that the defendant had received sixty-one votes and the relator sixty. After the trial the court below found that the defendant had received sixty-one legal votes and the relator not more than fifty-seven. In his complaint the relator alleged that thirty votes cast for the defendant were illegal on the ground of nonresidence in the town of Barksdale of these voters. Of these thirty voters it was conceded that thirteen voted for the defendant and eight…
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- Hughes v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
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