Harris v. Sheffield

Hnder the act approved August 1, 1906 (Acts 1906, p. 114), to provide for local-option elections in counties in which the sale of whisky is not lawful except through dispensaries, an. election was held in the county of Early on September 4, 1906. The result of the election was declared by the ordinary to be "against the dispensary.” Pending the publication of the result, and within twenty days from the declaration of the result by the ordinary, certain citizens, representing themselves to be one tenth in number of the voters who had voted at the election, filed a petition to contest the…