McClendon v. Hamilton

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The ineligibility of three men elected in November, 1937, as members of the Board of Education of Pulaski County, has brought about confusion, unfortunate to the interest of the public and inimical to the welfare of the schools. Three different groups have been claiming the right of succession. The attempts to exercise and the exercise of the duties of the offices in connection with one or the other, or independent of either or both, of two holdover members, would have resulted in chaos’ but for the control and restriction of a series of…