Express Pub. Co. v. Southwell

In the summer of 1924, certain unsuccessful candidates in a primary election held in Bexar county instituted a suit in the Forty-Fifth district court of that county to contest said election. Pending the disposition of the suit, upon a suggestion or oral order of' the judge of that court, the ballot boxes used in said election, containing the poll lists and ballots cast thereat, were placed for safe-keeping in a locked room in a vault in the county courthouse.

It appears that, prior to the election and during the campaign leading thereto, the Alamo Blue Print Company, which was owned and…