Pafford v. Hall

This is an original action in which the plaintiffs question the sufficiency of a petition for an initiated act to be popularly known as “A Statewide Prohibition Act. ’ ’ When the petition was filed with the defendant Hall, Secretary of State, he caused it to be examined and found that it contains 53,224 valid signatures. He accordingly declared the petition to be sufficient, as only 19,945 signatures are necessary to equal the required eight per cent of the total vote for governor in the most recent general election. Ark. Const., Amendment 7. The plaintiffs then brought this action to enjoin…