Saunders v. Neuse

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Budd Saunders filed this suit seeking a declaratory judgment that defendants Steven Neuse and Jerome J. Paddock, Jr. were ineligible to serve on the Washington County Board of Election Commissioners. The gravamen of count one of the complaint was that article 3, section 10 of the Constitution of Arkansas provides that no election officer shall hold any office or employment in state or city government and that Neuse was a professor at the University of Arkansas and Paddock was the City Attorney for the City of West Fork.

In the second count of his complaint Saunders…