TAYLOR v. ARMENTROUT


632 S.W.2d 107 (1981)

Richard TAYLOR, Wayne White, Chester Phillips and Donald Strother, as a Committee Acting for the Moral Action League, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jay ARMENTROUT, Martha Brockwell, Marion B. McKenney, Ben O'Dell and Bill Durham, as Washington County Election Commissioners, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

December 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles T. Herndon, IV, Johnson City, for defendants-appellants; Herndon, Coleman, Brading & McKee, Johnson City, of counsel.

Lodge Evans, Elizabethton, for plaintiffs-appellees.


OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

The object of this lawsuit was to have declared void a "liquor by the drink" or "on-premises consumption" referendum which took place in Johnson City on November 4, 1980. The referendum was on the ballot along with other local questions and the general election which took place on that date. The question was on ballots and voting machines only at polling places set up for voters who lived within the city. Because it was a city question...

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