State Ex Rel. Stone v. Thomas

Prohibition. Relators claim to be judges and clerks of election in certain precincts of certain wards in Kansas City. Respondents constitute the Board of Election Commissioners of that city.

Each of the relators was, in 1940, duly appointed and commissioned as a judge or clerk for a term ending sixty days before the next presidential election in 1944, under the provisions of Sections 12099, 12105, both inclusive, Revised Statutes Missouri 1939, Missouri Statutes Annotated, page 3943.

On various dates from June 3 to October 17 in the year 1941, the Board redistrieted some of the precincts in…