Show court upholds meriwether Meri weiher victory in n election contest recount decreases votes for each candidate but merin other still leads by fhe T dewey meriwether Meri was officially fici ally declared winner in the duchesne county race for the office of sheriff for the second time tuesday when the ballots wore were recounted by judge dallas II 11 young of the fourth judicial cobit assisted by attorneys for mr merl wather and his incumbent opponent arzy II 11 mitchell mitchall axel H pierson Pic plaintiff contested the november election results which favored mr air meu wether on the grounds that twenty illegal ballots had b baan cn counted for mr meriwether tile the case was taken before the court monday after the recount of ballots mr meriwether Meri maintained his leal 3 1 of five votes over mitchell Ml although the totals for each were cut by ten tile the official canvass showed Aler iwother with 1358 votes and matchell itchell Ml Al 1353 while the cobit boua count gave thern them 1343 and 1313 1343 13 13 respectively harper protest attorneys for mr air meriwether including ray E dillman rulon J larsen and george E stewart siewart stipulated that all ballots cast on november ath be recounted with the exception of the harper precinct which was protested harr hanpei ei precinct was abolished and to the duchesne precinct last june but witnesses were able t tc prove th that at in octo october ber tha count cou ity y commission voted to have a po polling 1 I place there for the voters 0 the old district and the court ruled that the votes cast in the harper precinct must be counted and included in the official pole after the harpor harper precinct votes were counte coun teJ 1 I the final results wee were 1318 for meriwether and 1343 for mitchell and the court found meriwether duly elected by a majority of five votes the case of paul murphy vs arthur goodrich for the office of duchesne Du chesno county cerk will come before the court at 11 a in january ath |