Stacy v. Hammond

Atkinson, Justice.

It appears that on July 14th, 1894, a petition, bearing the names of the requisite number of citizens, was presented to the ordinary of Spalding county, asking that an election be ordered, in terms of the general local option law, to determine whether spirituous liquors mentioned in the sixth section of that act should be sold within the limits of that county. For certain reasons, upon the sufficiency of which we are not now called upon to pass, the ordinary declined to order that election. A petition for mandamus was presented to the judge of the superior court, and on the…