Moorman v. Taylor

The 1956 general election was held on November 6. Wylie Perry, in order to qualify as an independent candidate for alderman of the third ward in Little Rock, filed with the county board of election commissioners, on September 21, 1956, a petition signed by forty-seven electors. Perry based his action upon Act 30 of 1891, which requires that such a petition contain from ten to fifty signatures. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 3-261. The present suit to enjoin Perry’s certification as an independent candidate was brought by the appellee, who contends that Act 352 of 1955 requires the petition to be signed…