Parker v. Rowan’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““In many cases when a judgment is rendered it is considered as final until reversed; but our statute on local option liquor elections establishes an entirely different rule in such cases. Act No. 212 of 1957, as found in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 48-827 (Repl. 1964) says of local option liquor election contests that if the election is contested there is no final determination until ‘the date of the issuance of the mandate by the court finally determining an election contest.’ This Act No. 212, when fitted into our local option election law in liquor cases, applies to contests by Drys as well as. to contests by Wets. The effect of our said statute is that the statics qico ante in liquor matters will not be changed until the ‘final determination’ of the • election contest. The contest of the 1964 local option election in Ouachita 'County has not been finally determined. As we have previously pointed out (and because of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 48-821 [Repl. 1964] and Ark. Stat. Ann. ^ 27-2001 [Repl. 1962]), the Drys have six months from August 6, 1965, to prosecute their appeal in the Circuit Court; 1 and under the plain wording of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 48-827 (Repl. 1964) there has been no ‘final determination’ because there has been no ‘issuance of the mandate by the court finally determining an election contest.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Graham v. State

2. ““Thus, as long as an election contest is pending, the Chancery Court has no jurisdiction to interfere in such controversy. Regardless of whether the proceeding filed hy the Wets in the Ouachita Chancery Court on August 11, 1965 be called a ‘petition for declaratory judgment,’ ‘petition for injunction,’ or some other pleading, the net effect is the same: the Chancery Court was being asked to declare that during the time allowed by law for the Drys to appeal to the Circuit Court there was no election contest pending.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Graham v. State