Doughty v. Town of Tullos

CUTRER, Judge.

This appeal presents the legal issue of whether a “dry” area becomes a “wet” area when the “dry” area is annexed by a municipality which had previously voted itself “wet” for the sale of beverages of high alcoholic content.

John Doughty filed a declaratory judgment suit against the Town of Tullos (Tul-los) seeking to have an annexed area, which had been voted “dry” prior to annexation, declared “wet” for the sale of beverages of high alcoholic content. Tullos had denied Doughty’s application for a permit to sell such beverages. Doughty and Tullos filed motions for summary…