Combs v. Brock

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

’ At the regular primary election in 1931 the appellant and plaintiff below, A. B. Combs, and the appellee and defendant below, Hiram M. Brock, were opposing candidates for the Republican nomination for the office of State Senator from the Thirty-Third senatorial district of Kentucky, which is composed of the counties of Perry, Letcher, Leslie, Clay, and Harlan. The ballots as counted and certified from the four counties of the district, not including Harlan, gave plaintiff a substantial majority; but the same as counted and certified in Harlan…