Show mime THE bUIT k livingston Uy ingston does the nasally thing at i caiti CASE LASTED TWO WEEKS investigation begun by the con did not extend beyond sanpete county precincts MANTI MAIM utah jen jan as immell abely following the opening of court today for the trial of the election contest of livingston Liv lagston against erickson Eric keen before judge booth counsel for livingston moved that the bo be dismissed in making the th motion attorneys stated that th the information on which they had baan based the suit was incorrect and that further proceedings would merely involve additional expense without advantage a to judge booth at once dismissed the caa caso decreed that judge erickson Eric kaoo wa was the duly elected judge of the seventh district and ordered that hie his certificate of election be conformal conf irmal ai the case lasted almost two acke and was vigorously conducted on both adee sides the investigation did not extend beyond county after two or three days ot of preliminaries the court opened and counted the otea otes of districts where errors against livingston had been allea alleged A A count connect of twenty four ballot boxes thus showed that the errors were against erickson Erick aon instead of livingston the accepted count at the close increasing judge Edek sons majority tram from eleven to ir by agreement errora errors were alleged by erickson la in bla his an ewer were overe then taken up rive precincts were examined showing gains for or erickson Bricke oo one voting district in manti mand alone snowed showed a gain of twenty for erickson Erick aeu making Erick sona majority moie than forty listul examination littlon of the ballets indicated that if it voters had been more par nicular in the marking arking ra of their ballots judge Erick aone majority would hav have own been much larger of ballots were found where voter voters had placed a cross after ErIck pont name but bad had failed te to draw a line through Livings tons there Is some talk to the effect that prosecutions may result in conse quence of the errors discovered disco vered in the tie manti mand district |