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HAWKINS v. PERSONS

84-473.

484 So.2d 1072 (1986)

Edna HAWKINS v. William PERSONS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin L. Davis, of Gray, Langford, Sapp, Davis & McGowan, Tuskegee, for appellant.

Sam E. Loftin, Phenix City, for appellee.

FAULKNER, Justice.

This is an election contest. In July of 1984, William Persons was elected to the Hurtsboro City Council by a three-vote margin. The unsuccessful candidate, Edna Hawkins, filed a contest of the election on the grounds that she would have been elected but for the wrongful failure of voting officials to include certain challenged votes among those tabulated in determining the winner of the election. The trial court ruled in Persons's favor. We reverse...

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