Wilkinson v. Queen

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is a second appeal in a local option election contest case. In the first appeal, Wilkinson v. Queen, Ky.1954, 269 S.W.2d 223, it was decided that 278 challenged votes were illegal because the voters did not sign the comparative signature book as required by KRS 117.655 and 117.745. The case was remanded for a determination by the circuit court of how these illegal voters had voted, if such was necessary to decide the result of the election.

*488Upon return, of the case appellees, who represented the “dry” forces and who had originally won the election by a 221 vote…