State Ex Rel. Sisson v. Felker

STONE, Presiding Judge.

At a special municipal election in the City of Sikeston, Missouri, a city of the third class, on April 7, 1959, the voters approved, by a vote of 1822 for to 1778 against, a proposition to adopt the city manager form of government. Nine days later, to-wit, on April 16, 1959, C. E. Felker, Mayor of the City, undertook to initiate “an election contest” in the Circuit Court of Scott County. His “notice of contest” having been dismissed by the trial court on May 11, 1959 [as it should have been (Felker v. City of Sikeston, Mo.App., 334 S.W.2d 754)], Mayor Felker…