Potts v. Tuttle
Decision Date | 01 February 1890 |
Citation | 44 N.W. 374,79 Iowa 253 |
Parties | POTTS v. TUTTLE et al |
Court | Iowa Supreme Court |
Decided January, 1890.
Appeal from Polk District Court. -- HON. MARCUS KAVANAGH, JR. Judge.
ACTION of mandamus. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and plaintiff appeals.
AFFIRMED.
Morgan & Evans, for appellant.
C. P Holmes, for appellees.
The petition alleges that on the date of the general election of the year 1888 the plaintiff was a resident of Saylor township, in Polk county, and was a candidate for the office of constable to fill a vacancy, that he was eligible to said office, and received therefor fifteen votes, which was a majority of all the votes cast for said office; that the judges of said election made due return of said votes, as required by law; that defendants were members of the board of supervisors of Polk county, and met at Des Moines for the purpose of canvassing the returns of said election, but refused to canvass the votes cast for plaintiff for said office, and refused to declare him elected thereto; that plaintiff demanded of said board that they canvass the votes cast for him as aforesaid, and declare him elected to said office, but that defendants refused to do so, whereby plaintiff sustained damages in the sum of five hundred dollars; that plaintiff is personally interested in the matter. Plaintiff asks that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue to compel defendants to reassemble as a canvassing board, and canvass the votes cast for plaintiff and declare him duly elected to said office, and to certify accordingly. The grounds of the demurrer are stated as follows:
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