Ragland v. Anderson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 18. — ACTIONS BY S. A. ANDERSON AGAINST M. S. RAG-LAND AS CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE OF THE 25TH LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT, AND BY C. P. KEOWN AGAINST W. S. TINSLEY, CLERK OF THE OHIO COUNTY COURT, TO TEST THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ACT OF THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE OF MARCH 23, 1906, APPORTIONING THE STATE INTO REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. .Appeals from Butler Circuit Court and Ohio Circuit Court. John M. Galloway,- Circuit Judge.
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CASE 18. — ACTIONS BY S. A. ANDERSON AGAINST M. S. RAG-LAND AS CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE OF THE 25TH LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT, AND BY C. P. KEOWN AGAINST W. S. TINSLEY, CLERK OF THE OHIO COUNTY COURT, TO TEST THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ACT OF THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE OF MARCH 23, 1906, APPORTIONING THE STATE INTO REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. .Appeals from Butler Circuit Court and Ohio Circuit Court. John M. Galloway,- Circuit Judge. From the judgment in favor of plaintiffs in each case defendants appeal. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. It is well settled that a court of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Barker
Affirming.
These cases involve the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky, entitled “An act dividing the State of Kentucky into 100 representative districts,” approved March 23,1906 (Acts 1906, p. 472, c. 139). They were heard together, and, as they involve the same question, will be treated as- one case in this opinion.
In the first case, S, A. Anderson, filed a petition in *146equity in the Butler circuit court, alleging that he was ■a citizen, taxpayer, and voter of that county; that he possessed all qf the…
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