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PARI - MUTUEL LAW UPHELD Kentucky Court of Appeals Sustains Decision of Appellate Court and Ends Litigation. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 17.— The Court of Appeals sitting at Frankfort overruled the states motion for a rehearing in the Kentucky Jockey Club litigation and ended the attempt of the attorney generals department to have the pari-mutuel statutes declared unconstitional Tuesday. Suits to have the law declared unconstitutional were instigated by former Attorney General Frank E. Daugherty in December, 1927, and his successor in office in January, 1928, Attorney General J. W. Cammack, dismissed the suits of Mr. Daugherty and filed new petitions with the assistance of M. B. Holifield. his assistant in the attorney generals office. The petitions alleged the abuse of the charters held by the Kentucky Jockey Club, which controlled the Latonia club and Churchill Downs, all three of these organizations being made parties to the suit. The Appellate Court in February last upheld the validity of the pari-mutuel laws and refused to revoke the charters of the racing associations when the case was carried to the higher court from the Jefferson County Circuit Court, which dismissed the suits, where they were first sent for trial, *-
