Laird

Appellant, who was the contestant, thus states the ease:

“This is an election contest, the parties to the proceeding having both been candidates for the office of supervisor in supervisorial district No. 5, in the county of Mariposa, at the general election held on November 5, 1912. This supervisorial district at the time of the election was composed of several election precincts, and, among others, the precinct of Wawona. The contention of the contestant at the hearing was that the votes cast in this precinct should have been rejected. If this had been done, the result of the election would have been changed, and the contestant would have been declared elected instead of the respondent. The judgment of the lower court, however, went in favor of the respondent, and from that judgment the contestant prosecutes this' appeal.” He relies for a reversal upon the single proposition that: “The election at Wawona precinct was accompanied by so many gross irregularities and so many flagrant instances of misconduct on the part of the board of election that it must be presumed that the election in said precinct was tainted with fraud, and that the entire vote cast thereat must be…