In re Wightman

On the 22d day of August, 1904, Prank Wightman, a qualified elector of the city of Newburgh, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, filed in this court his petition contesting the election held on the 13th day of August, 1904, in the city of Newburgh, under the act of the General Assembly, “further to provide against the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors” (97 Ohio Laws, page 87), commonly called the “Brannock Law.” On' the petition a summons was issued, under the. law, and served upon Fred Axel, mayor of the city of Newburgh, who inter*130posed an answer to the petition on the 16th of…