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CAHILL v. LEOPOLD

141 Conn. 1 (1954)

WILLIAM J. CAHILL, JR., ET AL. v. ALICE K. LEOPOLD, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided February 15, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Gordon, Jr., with whom were William P. Aspell and, on the brief, George D. Braden, Alexander A. Goldfarb, James H. Kinsella, Frederick D. Neusner and Leo Parskey, for the plaintiffs.

William L. Beers, attorney general, with whom was Mansfield D. Sprague, deputy attorney general, for the defendant.

INGLIS, C. J., BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, QUINLAN and WYNNE, JS.

O'SULLIVAN, J.

At its regular session in 1953 the General Assembly enacted Public Act No. 32, purporting to redistrict the senatorial districts of the state. General Statutes, Cum. Sup. 1953, §§ 399c, 400c. The ultimate question in this litigation is whether that enactment is violative of the thirty-first amendment to the state constitution. The amendment, in the form in which it was adopted in 1901 and in which it still remains, is printed in full in the...

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