Board of Education v. Fiscal Court of Warren County

It is with much reluctance that I am forced to concur in the majority opinion, but I cannot avoid the conclusion that the law is too plain to do otherwise. No one actually contends with a straight face that these petitions complied with the express provisions of the statute. The undisputed fact of life is that they did not. The only question is whether the deficiency was fatal. There are two possible theories under which it might be found not so. One is that when the legislature enacted the requirement that someone verify the “signatures and addresses” (emphasis added) it really intended that…