State ex rel. Alexander v. Hutto

This is a quo warranto proceeding, instituted in the name of the District Attorney, to oust Mrs. H. G. Hutto as trustee of Eden Consolidated School District, located in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The petition avers that her election was illegal because the polls closed at three-thirty o’clock, p. m., whereas the applicable statute required the polls to remain open from two to four o ’clock in the afternoon. Section 9, Chapter 12, Laws of Miss. 1953, Extraordinary Session.

Mrs. Hutto, in her answer, among other contentions, says that the cited statute was not applicable to her election. She…