Jeter v. Headley

These parties were rival candidates for county judge of Edgar county at the November election, 1898, appellant being the republican and appellee the democratic candidate. By the returns and canvass of the votes appellee was found to have received a majority of sixty-eight, and thereupon received a certificate and commission, and entered upon the duties of the office the first Monday of December of that year. Within the time fixed by statute, December 12,1898, appellant filed his petition in the circuit court of that county to contest appellee’s election. The only ground of contest set up in…