Helton v. Franklin

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Bell circuit court rendered in a contest of a local option election, held throughout the Third Magisterial District in Bell County on May 8, 1943. There are seven voting precincts in the district in which the election was held, and the county board of election commissioners certified that there were 339 votes cast in favor of local option in the territory, and 359 against it, thus giving the wets a majority of twenty.

The appellee, a citizen and voter in the magisterial district, filed this contest against…