Preisler v. Doherty

*464PIYDE, J.

[430] Action for declaratory judgment to determine validity of the 1952 division of the City of St. Louis into seven senatorial districts. The present Board of Election Commissioners, which did not make the challenged redistricting and have been substituted for the members of the former Board who did make it, filed answer denying the invalidity of the redistricting. However, their answer also contained a counterclaim asking for a declaratory judgment, if the redistricting should be declared unconstitutional and void, which would■ determine the authority of the-present Board to create…