Prewitt v. Wilson

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

This contest for the election of a school tfustee involves two unusual legal questions as well as issues common to such cases. Wilson received a majority of one vote over Prewitt. The latter’s petition of contest was dismissed.

The votes of several women are challenged because of illiteracy. For several years before the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States we had in Kentucky a statute permitting women to vote in school elections, but no other, provided they could read and write and possessed the…