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Show H Cachets County Clerk, H Tlie state Siipienie couit a few d.rjs H ago handed down an opinion In the H case of A. L. ranch s Jacob X. Lar- BBJ sen, appellant, which has given very BBj geneial satisfaction and incieased the H conlidencc of the people in the in- BBJ tegilty of the Supieinc bench. The Bfl opinion was wilttcu by Justice Kartell BBJ and couciiricd in by Chief Justice Has- kin and Just ice MeCarty.Thc plalntitT BBJ and defend.int in the suit were rival H candidates for the position of county H cleik of Cache county. It was a close H ote. The Judges of election declared j Lai sen elected by a veiy nation ma- joiity. The plaintiff, alleging fiaud V j in the easting and counting of the bal- I loLs,brought suit to oust Laisen. The H trial court found In favor of Fan ell, H and Larscn appealed. The til.il couit ordered a recount of the ballots and H In the leeoiiut the Fan ell ballots out- H niunbeied Laisen'sbv a few. It ap- pcaicd, however, that Farrell from the day of the election until the trial had been the custodian of the ballots and had kept them In a semi-public room In his oltlce where many peopl6 had access to thcm.Tlic Supreme court in Its opinion held that the ballots had not been kept with the sacred-nessand sacred-nessand secuiity fioin possible tampering tam-pering contemplated by the law and that they should not, under those circumstances, cir-cumstances, bo recounted. The returns re-turns made by the Judges of election theiefoie stand and Larscn holds the office. Salt Lake Ti nth. |