Ex parte Morton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. E. G-. Mitchell, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. S. J. Morton and other adult inhabitants residing within three miles of the Heber High School building, on the 1st January, 1900, filed .a petition asking the county court of Cleburne county to make an order prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within, three miles of said school house. The county judge made the-following indorsement on the petition: “Ignored entirely.”
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Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. E. G-. Mitchell, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. S. J. Morton and other adult inhabitants residing within three miles of the Heber High School building, on the 1st January, 1900, filed .a petition asking the county court of Cleburne county to make an order prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within, three miles of said school house. The county judge made the-following indorsement on the petition: “Ignored entirely.” P. C. Menees, County Judge, January 1, 1900.” Thereupon the petitioners prayed an appeal to the circuit court. The petition came on for…
1Opinion of the Court
PiddiCK, J.,
(after stating the facts). We are of the opinion that the county judge had the right to appeal from the order of the circuit court rendered in this case. Our statute provides that ydien appeals from the orders and judgments of a county court are prosecuted in the circuit or supreme court, the judge of the county court shall defend the same. Sand. & H. Dig., § 1270. This, as heretofore decided, includes the right to take an appeal. Ouachita County v. Bolland, 60 Ark. 516, 31 S. W. 144. Nor do we think it was necessary that either 'the county or the county judge should be made a…
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