BURKE v. BEASLEY


75 So.2d 7 (1954)

M.C. BURKE, Appellant, v. Thos. D. BEASLEY, one and the same person as Thomas D. Beasley, Granger E. Bruner, Lyle E. Griswold, J.B. Goff, John D. Dobbs, John A. Flournoy, H.D. Henderson, Jessie Floyd, John W. Sullivan, one and the same person as Jno. W. Sullivan, Joe Dan Trotman, H.A. Bodiford, and Emery Campbell, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division A.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S.M. Preacher, De Funiak Springs, and Coe & Coe, Pensacola, for appellant.

Forsyth Caro, Pensacola, for appellees.


SEBRING, Justice.

This appeal is from a final decree rendered in a primary election contest proceeding instituted pursuant to section 99.192, Florida Statutes 1951, F.S.A.

According to the record, M.C. Burke, the plaintiff below, was a candidate in the 1954 Democratic Primary election for nomination as a representative in the Florida legislature from Walton County. He sought in his complaint to have corrected an alleged error in the return of the election...

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