GEORGE H. CORNELIUS, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, EX REL. H. J. DRANE, DEFENDANT IN ERROR

Fla. | 1932-09-27
Buford, C.J., and Ellis and Brown, J.J., concur., Whitfield, P.J., and Terrell, J., concur in the opinion and judgment., Davis, J., absent from oral argument, not participating.
106 Fla. 793 Florida Supreme Court (1932) Caution
Also reported at: 144 So. 66
Cited by 5 cases
Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed on authority of the opinion and judgment in the case of John Whitehurst, County Judge, Mrs. Lily Sewell, Supervisor of Registration, and A. B. Endsley, as and constituting the County Canvassing Board of Elections, et al., vs. State of Florida, ex rel. H. J. Drane, this day filed, and authorities therein cited.

Affirmed.

Buford, C.J., and Ellis and Brown, J.J., concur.

Whitfield, P.J., and Terrell, J., concur in the opinion and judgment.

Davis, J., absent from oral argument, not participating.

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    …ty confined to the canvassing board to which the election returns are required to be sent for the purpose of being canvassed and there having the result declared and announced. In the Drane-Peterson election contest (Wiggins v. State ex rel. Drane, 106 Fla. 793, 144 Sou. Rep. 62) the purpose [*127] of that mandamus proceeding was to compel the election inspectors to segregate in their returns those ballots admittedly marked in a proper manner, from those not so marked, but alleged to have been counted. Thu…
  • State ex rel. J. R. Carpenter v. Barber, 144 Fla. 159 (Fla. 1940)
    …should be ascertained from a study of the ballot and the vote counted, if the will and intention of the voter can be determined, even though the cross mark “X” appears before or after the name of said candidate. See Wiggins, County Judge, v. Drane, 106 Fla. 793, 144 So. 62; Nuccio v. Williams, 97 Fla. 159; 120 So. 310; State ex rel. Knott v. Haskell, 72 Fla. 176, 72 So. 651. Generally, the courts in construing statutes relating to elections, hold that the same should receive a liberal construction in favo…
  • McAlpin v. State, 155 Fla. 33 (Fla. 1944)
    …ely that except for State ex rel. Carpenter v. Barber, et al., 144 Fla. 159, 198 So. 49, he would reject the check (V) marked ballots. The trial court in other words was of the view that the last cited case overruled Wiggins v. State, ex rel. Drane, 106 Fla. 793, 144 So. 62, wherein we held that the law requiring a voter to indicate his choice by cross (X) mark before the name of the candidate was mandatory. In this holding the trial court was in error as the cases were not in point. In the Carpenter case,…

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