Ritchie v. Mann

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

DENYING PROHIBITION

Isom Ritchie petitions for an order prohibiting the respondent Ben Mann, as judge of the Knott Circuit Court, from adjudicating a primary election contest brought against the petitioner by the respondent Delmas Inman. His ground for such relief is that because Inman did not pay the $35 required by KRS 64.030 and KRS 142.011 to be advanced to the clerk upon the filing of an original action in the circuit court the contest was not duly “filed” within 15 days after the election and hence the circuit court does not have jurisdiction to entertain the…