Mullen v. McDonald
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 13 — AGREED CASE 1. The legislature in providing that the first ward of the city of Louisville, shall he one legislative district; that the second and third ward shall he one, and so on, manifestly intended that the territory embracing these districts should follow any change in the wards of the city, which the municipal authorities were empowered to make. 1. The Constitution has conferred upon the legislature the right to divide the city into' legislative districts,…
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Case 13 — AGREED CASE 1. The legislature in providing that the first ward of the city of Louisville, shall he one legislative district; that the second and third ward shall he one, and so on, manifestly intended that the territory embracing these districts should follow any change in the wards of the city, which the municipal authorities were empowered to make. 1. The Constitution has conferred upon the legislature the right to divide the city into' legislative districts, and prescribe when and how the apportionment shall be made, and this right is vested wholly in the legislature, and can…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DuRELLE
delivebep the opinion oe the doubt.
This was an agreed case, tried before the chancery division of the Jefferson Circuit Court.
Appellee was elected a member of the Louisville School Board at the November, 1896, election by the voters of the Seventh Legislative District of the county of Jefferson. The statute provides that the members of that board shall be elected two from each legislative district. (Section 2949, Kentucky Statutes.) $
The act adopted by the general assembly at the session of 1891-2-3 provided for the creation of one hundred representative districts, the. Fiftieth…
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