Jenkins v. State Board of Elections
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN beard by Kerr, J., on 16 September, 1920, from Wake, upon a demurrer to tbe complaint, and upon a motion for injunction. Tbe court sustained tbe demurrer, and denied tbe motion. Plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
BnowN, J'.
Tbe prayer of tbe complaint is tbat tbe defendants be enjoined from printing and distributing tbe forms required by the provisions of tbe acts of 1917 and 1919, and from carrying out any of tbe provisions of said acts upon tbe ground tbat they are unconstitutional and void. This legislation is known as tbe absentee voters law, being cb. 23, Public Laws 1917, reenacted and brought forward in Art. 8, cb. 95, of tbe Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina, as amended by cb. 322, Public Laws 1919. It is claimed tbat tbe law is unconstitutional because it is repugnant to Art. YI, sec. 2,…
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