State ex rel. Catts v. Crawford
State ex rel. Catts v. Crawford
Opinion of the Court
—The Prayer of the petition is that the State Canvassing Board be compelled to add the sixty-nine votes from Precinct Number 3 in Alachua County to the canvass made on September 21st, and from this to declare as a result that the relator is the nominee of the Democratic party for the office of Governor.
The canvass referred to was made under the order of this Court based upon amended and corrected returns
By confining the State Canvassing Board to an antecedent date, the pleader has industriously excluded from its consideration any account of subsequent corrections of the various county returns, however meritorious and unimpeachable.
The alternative writ is denied.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- State of Florida, ex rel. Sidney J. Catts, Relator v. H. Clay Crawford, Thomas F. West and J. C. Luning, Secretary of State, Attorney General and State Treasurer, Respectively, Constituting the State Canvassing Board for Democratic Primary of June 6th, 1916
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- Syllabus
- The State Canvassing Board will not by mandamus be required to reconvene and to canvass inaccurate returns of a primary election that may have been superseded by amended and corrected returns made in judicial proceedings the accuracy of which latter is not questioned.