Prior v. Noland

This is a suit in mandamus. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the petition, and a judgment of dismissal was entered. The petitioners bring the cause here for review, assigning as error the sustaining of the demurrer.

The petition for a writ of mandamus, with the exhibit attached thereto, discloses the following facts:

The Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States, at its second session, in December, 1917, by a joint resolution duly adopted, proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, popularly known as the “National Prohibition Amendment.”

On January 15, 1919, the…