Shay v. Welch

Appellees filed in the county court of Sharp county a petition, setting forth that the signers thereof constituted fifteen per cent, of the qualified electors of that county, and praying that an election be called, as provided for in Initiated Act No. 1, adopted on November 3, 1942, (Acts .of 1943, p. 998) for the purpose of voting on the question of the manufacture, sale, bartering, loaning or giving away of intoxicating liquors in the county.

On July 25,-1945, the county court heard the petition, and, finding that it was signed by the requisite number of voters, ordered the election to be…