Parks v. Taylor

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

The petitioners ask us to review an order of the Chancery Court of Logan County, entered after a hearing, on the sufficiency of signatures to an initiated measure to be referred to the voters of Logan County. We deny the writ.

The proposal was to repeal a county ordinance which levied a one cent sales tax. Susan Hixson, the county clerk, examined the petitions for ten days and certified that there were sufficient signatures. She found 1,291 signatures to be valid, and 667 signatures to be invalid.1 The Logan County Election Commission had certified that at the last…