Kirwan v. Speckman

Judgment for petitioners.

In this original action brought in this court the petitioner, Patrick S. Kirwan, seeks a writ of prohibition against Hon. Lawrence P. Speckman, Judge of *580the Chancery Branch, First Division, of the Jefferson Circuit Court, to prevent him from proceeding further in an action filed by Arthur R. Smith, Jr., to have declared vacant Kirwan’s office as a member of the Board of Education of the City of Louisville, hereinafter referred to as the Board.

The petition avers that in November 1946 Kirwan was elected a member of the Board for a four year term arid took office on…