State ex rel. St. Louis County v. Kirkpatrick

SEILER, Judge.

The first question before us in this case is whether relator St. Louis County has the authority to enact an ordinance submitting to the voters cf St. Louis County at the next general election, a proposal calling for the nonpartisan appointment and retention of circuit judges and probate judges in said county, pursuant to the provisions of Art. V, § 29(a)-(g), 1945 Constitution, V.A. M.S., and another ordinance with the same proposal as to magistrate judges. The Board of Election Commissioners refused to place the two proposals on the ballot. The county, joined by intervenor…