Reamey v. Watt

Carretón Harris, Chief Justice.

The issue in this litigation is the validity of an election in Ashley County on the question of adopting a stock law. Preparatory to holding such an election, a group of citizens sponsored circulation throughout the county of petitions as a matter of obtaining sufficient signatures to place this proposal upon the ballot. One hundred and seventy-four petitions, bearing approximately twenty-five hundred signatures, were filed in the office of the County Clerk on August 31, 1964. On that same date, the Ashley County Court entered an order directing that the ballot…