Baker v. Boone

The appellees filed a proceeding in the county court to contest the outcome of a local option election at which the voters of White County apparently voted for the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. The complaint asserted that the election officials had sealed up in the ballot boxes the only copies of the lists of persons voting at the election and that the information contained in those lists was needed by the plaintiffs in the preparation of the contest. At a preliminary hearing the county court entered an order which in substance directed the appellants, as members of the county…