Hinton v. Stewart

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Baird

Reversing.

On the 23d day of April, 1937, a petition was filed with the county clerk of Logan county, Ky., containing signatures of alleged voters amounting to 3,000 names or more, requesting that an election be called on the 26th day of June, 1937, for the purpose of determining the sense of the legal voters as to whether or not spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors be sold, bartered, or loaned in the county. On the 3d day of May, 1937, which was the regular county court day for the county, exceptions were filed to a large number of the names signed to the…