Watters v. Lyons
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saeeold Berney. Election contest instituted by J. P. Walters and others, against Pat J. Lyons, to contest his election to the office of commissioner of the city of Mobile. Judgment for contestee and contestants appeal. The appeal relates only to the ineligibility of Lyons, and this ineligibility arises through a violation of the statute, and of the Code.
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Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saeeold Berney. Election contest instituted by J. P. Walters and others, against Pat J. Lyons, to contest his election to the office of commissioner of the city of Mobile. Judgment for contestee and contestants appeal. The appeal relates only to the ineligibility of Lyons, and this ineligibility arises through a violation of the statute, and of the Code. The rulings on ineligibility were not without injury to appellant as bribed votes were illegal, and should have been thrown out and not considered. — 29 Kan. 282; 19 S. W. 407. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This appeal seeks to revise rulings of the trial court in dismissing an election contest in so far as it relates to the eligibility of the contestee, Lyons, to hold the office of commissioner for the city of Mobile.
There were two paragraphs of the statement of the grounds of contest which attempted to set up the ineligibility of the contestee. These paragraphs were 4 and 12, and were as follows: “(4) That said Pat J. Lyons was not eligible to the said office for which he was voted for at said election, and said declaration of election is illegal.”
“ (12) That said Pat J. Lyons in said election…
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- Ex parte ShepherdSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
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