Queenan v. Russell

CULLEN, Commissioner.

In a declaratory judgment action brought by two voters of Jefferson County (in a representative capacity) and the board of election commissioners of the county, against the county court clerk and the fiscal court, the circuit court held invalid a statute section, KRS 126.175 (1960, c. 146, sec. 3), created by a 1960 Act as a supplemental provision of the absent voting law. The court also construed two other sections of the absent voting law, KRS 126.150 and 126.230, which had been amended by the same 1960 Act.

The defendants have appealed and the Attorney General has filed…