Monhollan v. Rice

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

— Affirming.

The appellant, Tom Monhollan, and the appellee, B. M. Bice, were opposing candidates for the ^Republican nomination for the office of constable of the fourth magisterial district of Whitley county at the primary election held on August 2, 1941. There were three candidates in the race, and the appellee received a plurality of 18 votes. Monhollan instituted a contest proceeding-in which he set up several grounds of contest, but all were abandoned except the attack on appellee’s preelection statement of expenses. The circuit court held that…