Adams v. Bosworth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 9. — ACTION BY JOSEPH BOSWORTH AGAINST NA- . PIER ADAMS AND OTHERS INVOLVING THE VALIDITY OF AN ACT OF THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE APPORTIONING SENATORIAL DISTRICTS OF THE STATE. Appeal from Whitley Circuit Court. M. J. Moss, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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CASE 9. — ACTION BY JOSEPH BOSWORTH AGAINST NA- . PIER ADAMS AND OTHERS INVOLVING THE VALIDITY OF AN ACT OF THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE APPORTIONING SENATORIAL DISTRICTS OF THE STATE. Appeal from Whitley Circuit Court. M. J. Moss, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. This 'appeal involves the constitutionality of the act of the Kentucky Legislature approved June 28th, 1903, entitled “An Act dividing the State into thirty-eight Senatorial Districts;” also the validity of the Act of May 9th, 1890, adding Owsley county to what is the Seventeenth Senatorial District under an Act…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Carroll
Reversing.
In this action, the validity of an act of the Legislature approved June 28, 1893 (Laws 1893, p. 1204, c. 235), apportioning the State into senatorial districts, is assailed upon the ground that it is in violation of section 6 of the Constitution, providing that “all electons shall he free and equal,” and section 33, providing, in part, that “the first G-eneral Assembly after the adoption of this Constitution shall divide the State into thirty-eight senatorial districts and one hundred representative districts, as nearly equal in population as may…
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