People ex rel. Arfman v. Newell

Defendant in error is the county clerk and recorder of Boulder County. September 29, 1908, there was filed in his office a petition to have' submitted to the qualified voters of precinct 24 in that county, at the November election next ensuing, the question whether the precinct should become “anti-saloon territory” under the “local option act” of 1907. The county clerk approved, and accepted, the petition, and was about to place the proposition upon the ballot, when John Arfman, as relator, made application to the district court for a writ of certiorari, directed to the county clerk, to…