Burns v. Lackey

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Paducah is a city of the second class and is being governed under what is known as the commission form of government, as is authorized by statute.

The statute contemplates a non-partisan municipal government, and provides that every fourth year a nonpartisan primary shall be held prior to the regular election at which two candidates for mayor may be nominated and eight candidates for the four commissioners to be elected at the ensuing’ election may be nominated, and the persons so nominated shall be entitled to have their names printed on the…