Martin v. Hickey

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This appeal seeks to determine whether Chancery Court has jurisdiction to hear a petition to challenge the sufficiency of a joint petition of independent candidates to place their names on the ballot for a general election to be held in an incorporated town.

The appellants are ten qualified electors and taxpayers of the incorporated town of London, Pope County. They filed in the Pope County Chancery Court a petition to challenge the joint petition of a slate of independent candidates who sought the elective offices in the town of London. The challenge was filed…