Bragg v. Hall

This is an original action in which the plaintiff attacks the sufficiency of a petition to initiate a constitutional amendment prohibiting pari-mutuel betting. The complaint asserts that the petition is not signed by the required number of qualified electors. The sponsors of the proposed measure have intervened to defend their petition. Questions of . fact being presented, we appointed a member of the bar, Riddick Riff el, as the court’s master to take the testimony. Supreme Court Rule 17. After the litigants had presented their evidence the master found the petition to be sufficient and…