KENTUCKY ELECTION LAWS.



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the contestee shall file his answer, which may consist of a de-
nial of the averments of the petition and may also set up
grounds of contest against the contestant, and if grounds are so
set up they shall be especially pointed out and none other shall
thereafterward be relied upon by said party. A reply may
be filed within ten days after the answer or answers are filed,
but its affirmative allegations shall be treated as controverted,
and no subsequent pleading allowed, and the action shall pro-
ceed as an equity action.
  The evidence in chief for the contestant shall be completed
within thirty days after the issues are made up and the evi-
dence of the contestee completed within twenty days thereafter,
and the evidence for contestant in rebuttal in fifteen days after
the contestee has concluded. The action shallhave precedence on
the trial docket over all other cases. All ballots, poll-books,
stubs or other papers concerning which there is any ground
for contest may be removed to the court in which the action
is pending. Either party may appeal from the judgment of the
circuit court to the court of appeals by giving bond to the clerk
of the circuit court, with good surety, conditioned for the pay-
ment of all costs and damages the other party may sustain by
reason of the appeal and by filing the record in the clerk's office
of the court of appeals, within thirty days after final judgment
in the circuit court. And in the court of appeals the case shall
le heard and determined as speedily as possible, and shall have
precedence over all other cases.
  In case it shall appear from an inspection of the whole record
that there has been such fraud, intimidation, bribery or viol-
ence in the conduct of the election that neither contestant nor
vontestee can be adjudged to have been fairly elected, the circuit
court, subject to revision by appeal, or the court of appeals
finally may adjudge that there has been no election. In such
event the office shall be deemed vacant, with the same legal
effect as if the person elected had refused to qualify.
  On the production of a copy of the final judgment, the suc-
cessful party shall be permitted to qualify or be commissioned,
or a writ of new election shall be issued as the judgment may re-
quire. The unsuccessful party shall pay all costs in both courts.
  13. State board-where to meet-compensation--stationery
-hoU' paid. Said State Board of Election Commissioners shall