State Ex Rel. Knox v. Speakes

There is involved in this case the constitutionality of what is known as the County Court Act (chapter 131, Laws of 1926, p. 218 et seq.). The state, on relation of Rush H. Knox, attorney-general, brought mandamus against appellees, the members of the board of supervisors of Bolivar county, to require them to submit under section 6 of the act to the qualified electors of said county the question whether the County Court Act should be put in force in that county. Appellees refused to enter the order for the election, upon the ground alone that in their judgment the act was unconstitutional.…