Pendergrass v. Sheid

G-eorge Bose Smith, Justice.

At the general election held on November 8,1966, the appellant and the appellee were rival candidates for the office of State Bepresentative for the Fifth District, comprising Fulton and Baxter counties. Mrs. Sheid, the Democratic nominee, was certified as the winner by a vote of 4,542 to 4,488. Pendergrass, the Republican nominee, brought this action in the Pulton Circuit Court to contest the election. His complaint asserted that the votes of 84 specified electors should be declared illegal for various reasons, such as nonresidence, irregularities in absentee…