DocketNumber: No. 34787
Citation Numbers: 203 Okla. 360, 221 P.2d 778
Judges: Arnold, Corn, Davison, Halley, Johnson, Luttrell, Neal, Welch
Filed Date: 8/4/1950
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/2/2022
T. H. Harrell was a candidate for the office of county commissioner of district No. 3 of Sequoyah county at the run-off primary held on July 25, 1950, and according to the tabulated and announced results of the votes cast in said race he received fewer votes than his opponent.
The members of the board convened with the district judge in the district courtroom and after consideration of the application, on motion to dismiss, the application was dismissed and the recount refused. Thereupon this petition for writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to grant a recount of the ballots cast at said election was filed, in this court.
Said petition under the rules of law this day announced in William O. Coe v. State Election Board et al., 203 Okla. 356, 221 P. 2d 774, and for the reasons therein stated, was and is sufficient to entitle said petitioner to a recount as prayed for.
Writ granted.