Commonwealth v. Wilson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry —

Reversing.

This is a companion case with that of Commonwealth v. Begley, 273 Ky. 636, — S. W. (2d) —, decided May 20, 1938. Both were ouster suits brought respectively against two present members of the Board of Education of Leslie County, charging that because of alleged statutory disqualifications, they were usurpers of and ineligible to serve out their terms of office, to which they had been elected at the general November, 1935, election.

In the Begley Case, the disqualification charged was that at the time of his election as stated, he was rendering…