Carroll v. Green

The appellant contested the election of the appellee to the office of township trustee of Lost River township in Martin county, both parties being opposing candidates for that office at the general election of-November 6,1894.

The board of commissioners before whom the proceedings were begun sustained a demurrer to the contestor’s petition or statement of grounds of contest, refused to allow him to amend it, and rendered judgment against him, from which he appealed to the circuit court. A trial of the contest there resulted in a finding and judgment against the contestant, the appellant, over…