Catlett v. Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern Railway Co.

After the necessary preliminaries required by the statute had been complied with, the quarterly court of Sevier county ordered that an election should be held on the 14th of December, 1907, by the election commissioners of the county, to obtain the sense of the people as to whether the county should subscribe $150,000 to the capital stock of the defendant railway company. Pursuant to the statute, it was directed that those in favor of the subscription should put upon their tickets the words “For subscription,” and those opposing should put upon their tickets the words “No subscription.” The…