Buffington v. Carson

The main question in this case is whether a contest of a county road tax election must be filed within twenty days after the election. This contest was begun almost four months after the election, and the circuit court dismissed the suit upon the ground that it was brought too late.

At the general election held on November 7, 1950, the road tax was submitted to the electorate of Saline County. On the following day the county election commissioners certified that- the tax had been defeated. In March, 1951, the appellant Buffington, as a taxpayer, brought this suit against the election…