The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-06-10
Contested Elections.

The Democratic ballot box suffers in
Norfolk and Petersburg will be brought to
the book in reference to the frauds and
corruptions committed III he recent
municipal elections in fho-~ cities. A
dispatch from Norfolk, dated the 18th,
says:
Judge w. II Burroughs AMI Messrs
Holiday & Medley, counsel for the Repub-
lican candidates defeated at the late cleo
tion Ill this city, filed to-day formal notice
that they will contest the election Of Ill
officers elected May 27th upon the grou8d
that the said election was upon false
returns with notice that they will move
the Circuit Court at it's next term in
November to hear said complaint.
The complaint is based upon aflidayits
of prominent Republicans, and reeites in
substance that the certificates of the
alledged elected officers were signed by
only four persons named as commissioners
of election. One of them, E. w. Face,
having refused to affix his signature that
at several precincts persons acted as judge
OF election without legal appointment or
authority to so act.
For this reason it is alleged that the
returns of said election have not been
legally ascertained that the persons act
ing as judges and commissioners Of cleo
tion at the First and Second precincts Of
the Fourth Ward adopted a systematic
course of misconduct in hinderiDg and
delaying the votes, by which means only
612 votes were polled out of a registered
strength of 1900, a large majority of those
thus restrained being Republicans that
the violent aud offensive conduct OF Chas,
H. Todd, at the second precinct Of the
Fourth Ward deferred many persons from
voting
The complaint gees ON TO allege cases of
improper and Illegal conduct at the differ
ent precincts, and AYERS that had there
been a true count kept the entire Repub-
lean ticket would have been elected.
In Petersburg the attempt to suppress
the entire vote of the Sixth Ward by
which the Citizens ticket would have been
counted in. was defeated by tha positive
and manly action of the Circuit Judge.
He gave a peremptoHy order that the ballots
be counted which had to be Obeyed. The
result was the election of the entire Re
publican ticket for general offices. The
Republicans also contest the election Of
councilmen in the Second, Four. h aud
Fifth Wards. On the 9Th, they filed motion
of contest. the general allegation was
fraud, and the cases were to have been
heard on Monday.
IMPORTANT DECIsIoN.-TheR Richmond
Dispatch of yesterday gives the following
report of an important decision rendered
In that oitv an V,uncdav
In the Chancery Court yesterday Judge
Holiday delivered an opinion in the case
OF Davenport s. Morris against Fulcher 81
Co.. in favor of the plaintiffs. The suit
involved 100 barrels of whiskey, worth
about SIC, 600, and was brought to attack
a deed given by Fulcher u Co, To a lot Of
whiskey in a warehousein Augusta county.
This whiskey was claimed as passing
under that deed, and the trustee had ad-
vertised !. for sale under q deed of trust,
| The plaintiffs in the suit got out an
| injunction stopping the sale, and in their
| bill they attacked the deed on the ground
that 1t was fraudulent and void
| First. Because there was reserved TO the
| grant0r in the deed a power oyer the prop.
erty Inconsistent VITA the object of the
| trust.
| Second, Because the deed was void fol-
! uncertainty i'll the description of the prop
erty, and because the substitution clause
il The deed had been wholly disregarded bs
all parties to the contract.
made to the deed by counsel for the plain,