Case ID: ohio-st_161/html/0344-01.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n     Taet, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, ex rel. Patton, Appellant, v. Bazzell et al., Board of Elections of Lawrence County, et al., Appellees.
    (No. 33946
    Decided April 23, 1954.)
    
      
      Mr. J. Earl Pratt, for appellant.
    
      Mr. Harold D. Spears, prosecuting attorney, for appellee Board of Elections of Lawrence County.
    
      Mr. Elliott E. Meyers, for appellee Homer M. Edwards.
   Per Curiam.

This court is of the opinion that the board of elections in declaring the petition valid did not abuse its discretion. Accordingly, the Court of Appeals was not in error in sustaining the demurrer to the amended petition, and its judgment is affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.

Weygandt, C. J., Middleton, Taet, Hart, Zimmerman, Stewart and Lamneck, JJ., concur.

Taet, J.,

concurring. In my opinion, the decision in this case cannot be reconciled with the decision and the reasons given therefor in State, ex rel. Kroeger, v. Leonard et al., Board of Elections of Summit County, 151 Ohio St., 197, 84 N. E. (2d), 910. However, in view of the reasons which Judge Stewart and I gave in expressing our dissent from the judgment rendered in that case, I have no difficulty in concurring in the judgment being rendered in the instant case. See also State, ex rel. Halpin, v. Hamilton County Board of Elections, ante, 281.