Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1885, Case No. 1870 (Owens v. State ex rel. Jennett)

Willie, Chief Justice.

Upon a former appeal taken in this case by the relator we held that he had the right, under the allegations of his pleadings, to controvert the returns of the election for sheriff of Galveston county, alleged by him to have been fraudulently made, and to show the true state of the vote by the ballots themselves. State ex rel. Jennett v. Owens, 63 Tex., 261.