Muir v. Beauchamp

Jones J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case the appellant and the appellee were, at the election which occurred in the fall of 1899, opposing candidates for the office of County Commissioner of Somerset County. The Board of Supervisors of Election for that county, having canvassed and added up the votes as contained in the statements and returns transmitted to them, in turn transmitted to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county a statement, duly attested, from which it appeared that the appellee had received twenty-seven hundred and ten (2,710) votes, and that the appellant…