Herrington v. Hall

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

In September, 1962, an initiated petition to adopt a countywide stock law, purported to have been signed by 465 qualified electors, was filed with the County Clerk of Cleveland County. Acting under authority of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 2-303 (Repl. 1956), the Clerk certified the petition as sufficient to the County Board of Election Commissioners. Oil October 1, 1962, appellants herein filed a complaint in the Cleveland Chancery Court attacking the sufficiency of the petition and asking that the defendants be enjoined from placing the measure on the ballot for the…