104 Iowa 194 | Iowa | 1897
The board of supervisors, as county canvassers, found Olerich duly elected to the office of county attorney of Carroll county at the general election of 1896. This finding was contested by Davenport, and the court of contest, organized under the statute, decided that Davenport had received more votes than Olerich, and was entitled to the office. Ole-rich appealed to the district court, where it was held “that the ballots offered in evidence in this cause were preserved so carelessly as to expose them readily to fraudulent alterations, abstraction, substitution and destruction; and that the finding made by the board of supervisors of Carroll county, Iowa, acting as a board of canvassers, that A. T. Olerich was duly elected county attorney * * * is better evidence than the said