Hedrick v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““On the merits the question is whether the filing of a contest can suspend the effect of a local option election ■until the contest is decided. It Cannot be doubted that such a suspension was contemplated by the Thorn Liquor Law of 1935. By that act the county board of election commissioners was required to certify the election result to the county clerk. The clerk was directed to keep the certificate until the next regular term of the county court, when it became the duty of the county judge to have the certificate spread of record in his court. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 48-809. Ordinarily the dry law then became effective at the expiration of sixty days from the recording of the certificate. § 48-810. If, however, a contest were filed the law directed that the certificate not be recorded. § 48-820. It was also declared that contests should be governed by the laws applicable to the contest of any election of county officers. Ibid. The statutes so referred to permit appeals to be taken with or without supersedeas. § 3-1204. Thus under the procedure adopted in the Thorn Liquor Law the institution of a contest suspended the effective operation of the election, not only by the withholding of the certificate from the public records bu,t also by the authorisation of lorits of supersedeas on appeal.” [Emphasis added]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parker v. Hendriks