Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Twenty Saloons Closed at Kokomo by Supreme Court. [ARTICLE]

Twenty Saloons Closed at Kokomo by Supreme Court.

By a decision of the supreme court, reversing the Howard circuit court in the Kokomo saloon license cases, the twenty saloons are closed in that city. The controversy came about by the local option election returns showing a “dry” majority, but it was shown to the election board that error in some of the returns had been made, and that the "wets” really had a small majority, and the board so held. The county commissioners refused to grant licenses but on appeal to the circuit court the applicants got license. The supreme court held that the election commissioners had no right to go behind the face of the returns, which shewed a “dry” majority, and the circuit court was reversed.