Wilson v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Danville District. The petition must be signed by a majority of the adult inhabitants residing within the prescribed area regardless of county lines. The act contains no exception or qualification. It is the act of the legislature that prohibits ; the order of the county court merely puts the act in operation, and county lines form no barrier.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Danville District. The petition must be signed by a majority of the adult inhabitants residing within the prescribed area regardless of county lines. The act contains no exception or qualification. It is the act of the legislature that prohibits ; the order of the county court merely puts the act in operation, and county lines form no barrier. The proceeding is a mere police regulation, and, when the order is made the power vested in the county court is exhausted. See 40 Ark. 293 ; 35 id. 74 ; ib. 414 ; 37 id. 384; Cooley, Const. Lim. (4th ed.) star p. 117 to…
1Opinion of the CourtCockrill, C. J.
This proceeding arose under the local option law. Mans. Digest, sec. 4524, as amended in 1889. Acts of 1889, p. 139. A petition was presented, under that statute, to the county court of Yell county to prohibit the sale or giving away of intoxicating, liquors within three miles of the Dardanelle Male and Female Academy.
The academy is located in Yell county but within three miles of the Pope county line. The three mile radius therefore takes in a part of the territory of Pope county. The circuit court, where the cause was tried on appeal from the order of the county court, found that the…
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