Commonwealth ex rel. Ferguson v. Coffee

CULLEN, Commissioner.

On relation of the Attorney General, an action was brought to remove Ray Coffee from office as a member of the Jackson County Board of Education, on the ground that he did not meet the statutory qualification, under KRS 160.180(1) (c), of having an eighth grade education. Judgment was entered in favor of the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed.

The statute, KRS 160.180(1)(c), provides that the school board member may prove his educational qualification by any one of three methods, one of which is by “affidavits of the teacher or teachers under whom the work was…