Wilhite v. Mohr

ROBERTSON, Judge.

The petitioner-appellant Wilhite appeals from the trial court's judgment in an action for a recount of votes and the contesting of an election. We reverse.

Wilhite was duly nominated as the Democrat candidate for the office of Recorder of Clay County in the primary election held on May 8, 1984. There being a vacancy for the same office on the Republican side after the primary election, the respondent-ap-pellee Mohr filed her consent to be the Republican candidate for recorder on May 24, 1984, with the Clay County clerk. The Clay County Republican Central Committee failed to…