Herron v. McMurray

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Reversing.

Two suits involving the validity of a local option election, consolidated below, are heard together on appeal by contestants below. One set of contestants were voters in Magisterial District No. 5, the other in No. 4, of Union County. The pleadings, proceedings, orders and judgments are identical. The appeal is from a judgment sustaining demurrers to seventeen of the eighteen paragraphs of each petition and, upon failure of contestants to plead further, dismissing the petitions.

The election was petitioned for, called and held in Magisterial…