In Re Appeal & Contest of Osborne

Q;uinn, J.

G. S. Osborne and Raymond Nelson were opposing candidates for the office of town supervisor of the town of Fridley, Anoka county, at the annual town meeting held on March 10, 1925. The poll list at that election was kept by the town clerk, acting as clerk of the meeting, from which it appears that 165 persons voted thereat. When the ballot box was opened by the judges of election, after the polls closed, it appeared that the ballot box contained 166 ballots, of which 83 were in favor of Osborne and 83 in favor of Nelson. Whereupon, the judges of election immediately proceeded to…