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BYRD v. SHORT

No. 5-1426.

307 S.W.2d 871 (1957)

C. K. BYRD, Appellant, v. R. E. SHORT, Jr., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. D. Smith, Jr., Marianna, Carroll C. Cannon, Forrest City, for appellant.

Fred MacDonald, Brinkley, Burke, Moore & Burke and Charles B. Roscopf, Helena, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This election contest involves the office of school director of Moro School District "B". Short, as the only nominee on the printed ballot, received 89 votes, and Byrd received 182 write-in votes. Upon these returns the county board of election commissioners and the county court declared that Short had been elected without opposition. Ark.Stats. 1947, § 80-318. Byrd then brought suit in the circuit court to contest the election. The...

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