East v. Bell

LESTER, Judge.

On March 25, 1977, Paul Richardson, Frank East, Osby Neal, Horace Denney, Deb Branscum and James Higginbotham, six justices of the peace of Wayne County, filed a petition for writ of prohibition and declaratory judgment asking the Wayne Circuit Court to prevent the county judge, Ira Bell, from enforcing an order reapportioning justices’ districts. The court denied this petition finding jurisdiction for the reapportionment in the county court. This appeal presents to us the question of whether we should read KRS 25.680 in such a way *425to void the reapportionment which realigned the…