Ray v. Spiers

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

On tb.e 19th day of June, 1939, the county court of Hardin county — pursuant to a petition theretofore filed by it as permitted by Section 2554c-2 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes — ordered an election to be held in the town of Upton, Kentucky, on •September 5,1939, to take the sense of the people of that political unit as to whether or not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors ‘ ‘ shall be sold, bartered or loaned therein. ’ ’ At the election a large majority of the votes were cast in favor of local option, and which fact…