Dennis v. Hite

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County restoring the lost or destroyed public records showing the result of an election held on April 1, 1947. The action had been instituted to restore the lost or destroyed public records of the election held for the purpose of voting upon the proposition of whether the sale at retail of intoxicating beverages should be prohibited in that part of the town of Mt. Vernon lying outside the corporate limits of the City of Mt. Vernon. The petitioners are persons who reside in that part of Mt. Vernon. The petition alleged that the…