State Ex Rel. Walker v. Gessner

ADAMS, J.:

Appellants, by mandamus, sought to coerce the county commissioners of Volusia County to call an election pursuant to Chapter 567, Fla. Stat., 1941, relative to local option to prohibit the sale of whiskey.

The county commissioners answered the alternative writ saying that when the petition was presented, purporting to be signed by one-fourth of the qualified electors, a question arose as to whether the purported signers had actually signed the same. After some investigation was made, a citizen filed a bill for an injunction against the board, and, based thereon, procured a temporary…