Show court weighs 3 election contest cases three protests filed with supreme court in county election results incoming county offic ails will take their oaths of office on january 6 i excepting those involved in the vote count controversy hearing on the question has been set for january 17 A statement of contest has been filed with the utah supreme court by james T palmer and wesl wesley ey anderson democrats against lin biln jensen and golden porter republicans public ans involving the 4 year and 2 year commission posts respectively frank L whittier incumbent republican county treasurer has filed a protest against leonn dingman grover democrat the three morgan contests all based on alleged fail failure ure of the county canvassing board to credit certain democratic candidates with 56 G straight democratic votes and certain republican candidates with fil straight republican ballots involve both commission posts and county treasurer mr palmer is contesting for the 4 1 year commission office which hi hieb was won on the official canvass by mr jensen by a margin of six votes it is alleged that addition of the 51 straight democratic ballots to the palmer total will give him a majority of ia 0 o votes mr anderson is contesting with mr all porter who was given a vot vote e margin in the official canvass mr anderson alleges that certification of the actual and proper vote will give him a majority of one vote 4 the third contest in the county was filed thursday by mr air whittier against mrs grover who had a majority in the official canvass mr whittier alleged that certification of the correct vote including the il 11 straight republican ballots will give him the victory A mandamus action was brought several days ago in the state supreme court on behalf of the morgan democratic commission candidates seeking to compel the board of canvassers to certify the 56 straight democratic ballots r |