Brown v. Moss
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 96. — ACTION BY R. BROWN AGAINST M. J. MOSS, JUDGE TWENTY-SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, TO TEST THE CONSTITUTIONALITY' OF AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE CREATING A NEW DISTRICT. Appeal from Whitley Circuit Court. D. W. Sanders, Special Judge.
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CASE 96. — ACTION BY R. BROWN AGAINST M. J. MOSS, JUDGE TWENTY-SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, TO TEST THE CONSTITUTIONALITY' OF AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE CREATING A NEW DISTRICT. Appeal from Whitley Circuit Court. D. W. Sanders, Special Judge. Judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals — Appellant alleges that the act of February 21, 1906, is null and void. 1. Because the population of the State, according to the last census., deducting the population of counties having one hundred and fifty thousand people or more, is not sufficient to admit of the creation of the thirty third district at that…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Barker
Affirming.
The question for adjudication presented by this record is the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved February 21, 1906, entitled “An act to create the Thirty-Third judicial district of Kentucky and to change the TWenty-Sixth. Twenty-Seventh- and Twenty-Eighth circuit court judicial districts of Kentucky, and to provide for the holding of courts in the 'said Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, and Twenty-Eighth and Thirty-Third districts, and to provide for judges and commonwealth attorneys for same.”…
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