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LEIGH AND THOMAS v. HALL, SECRETARY OF STATE.

Opinion delivered October 17, 1960.

1. STATUTES—INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM—POPULAR NAME, SUFFICIENCY OF IN GENERAL.—Even though the popular name of an initiated measure need not be as explicit as the ballot title, it must not be used as a vehicle for unnecessary praise of the measure.
2. STATUTES—INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM—POPULAR NAME, PARTISAN COLORING.—Contention that use of word "Arkansas" lent partisan coloring to an initiated measure popularly titled "Arkansas Minimum Wage and Overtime Act", held without merit.
3. STATUTES—INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM—POPULAR NAME, USE OF MISLEADING WORDS.—Contention that use of word "overtime" as set out in an initiated measure popularly entitled "Arkansas Minimum Wage and Overtime Act", held without merit.
4. STATUTES—INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM—BALLOT TITLE, IN GENERAL.—While it is not required that a ballot title contain a synopsis of an initiated measure, it must, however, be (1) intelligible, (2) honest, and (3) impartial.