Ligon v. Bailey

COMBS, Justice.

This is an original action filed in this Court by the petitioner Jack Ligón seeking a writ of mandamus or prohibition against the Circuit Judge of the Fourth Judicial District to require the Judge to enter an order postponing the effective date of prohibition in the City of Dawson Springs pending determination of a contest case filed by the petitioner attacking the validity of a local option election.

At the local option election held on December 13, 1952, in Dawson Springs, the election commissioners reported a majority of 51 votes in favor of prohibition. Three days before the…