Countz v. Roe

These two cases are companion election contests involving two local option elections held in Yell county on November 4, 1958. In the principal case, No. 5-1923, the wets challenge the result in the county-wide election, in which the vote was certified as having been against the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. In the second case, No. 5-1956, the wets present a similar challenge to the result in a township election held in Ward township. The circuit court, hearing the eases upon the pleadings and certain stipulations, dismissed both complaints upon the ground that the contestants had…