The questions in this case are substantially the same as in Nichols v.McKee, ante, 429 and Welker v. Bledsoe, ante, 457, and are governed by the same principles and for the same reasons.

There will be judgment that the defendants be excluded from said office, and that the plaintiffs recover cost.

PER CURIAM. Affirmed.

Cited: Welker v. Bledsoe, ante, 465; Brown v. Turner, 70 N.C. 107;Day's case, 124 N.C. 377.

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