Schwartz v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the Denver District Court — Hon. Geo. W. Allen, Judge. The sixteenth general assembly passed an act known as the Local Option Law, which was duly approved March 23, 1907, and went into effect June 23 d next thereafter.
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Error to the Denver District Court — Hon. Geo. W. Allen, Judge. The sixteenth general assembly passed an act known as the Local Option Law, which was duly approved March 23, 1907, and went into effect June 23 d next thereafter. At the general election held in the city and county of Denver on May 19, 1908, a ward proposition was submitted, under the law, to the qualified electors of ward 12 therein, as 'to whether the ward should become anti-saloon territory, and a majority of the electors casting ballots thereon voted in the affirmative. Simultaneously with the ward submission, a separate and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
On this review but two propositions are presented and argued by counsel: (1) Is the so-called local option law a valid and constitutional one? (2) If yes, then when a ward proposition is submitted under it to the qualified electors thereof as to whether the ward shall become anti-saloon territory, and at the same time a separate and distinct like precinct proposition is submitted to the qualified electors of a precinct within the ward., and the ward votes yes and the precinct votes no, what is the legal effect of such vote?
The validity of the local option law seems not to have been directly…
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