State Ex Rel. Thurman v. Scott

The bill in this cause was filed in the Chancery Court of Clay County, to test the validity of an election by the county court of a beer committee. The bill is filed in the name of the State, on relation of Frank Thurman, R. W. Burnette and Willie Hunter, members of the Quarterly County Court of Clay County, and Harmon Jones, a licensee to sell beer in that county.- Gr. C. Scott, Palo Rose and Esben Stephens, members of the Clay County Beer Board or Committee, whose election was to be contested, were made respondents. The bill was met by demurrer, and on the hearing this demurrer was…