PREISLER v. DOHERTY

No. 44808.

284 S.W.2d 427 (1955)

Paul W. PREISLER, (Plaintiff) Appellant, v. Michael J. DOHERTY, Daniel J. Nack, Isaac C. Orr, and William E. Buder, as Members of the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis; Walter H. Toberman, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri; John M. Dalton, Attorney-General of the State of Missouri, (Defendants) Respondents, Oscar A. Mueller, and Michael Fitzgerald, (Intervenor-Defendants) Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Preisler, St. Louis, pro se.

James M. Douglas, St. Louis, for Michael J. Doherty, Daniel J. Nack, Isaac C. Orr and William E. Buder as Members of Board of Election Com'rs of City of St. Louis, defendants-respondents.

Maurice Schechter, St. Louis, for defendant-intervenors-respondents, Oscar A. Mueller and Michael Fitzgerald.


HYDE, Judge.

Action for declaratory judgment to determine validity of the 1952 division of the City of St. Louis into seven senatorial districts. The present Board of Election Commissioners, which did not make the challenged redistricting and have been substituted for the members of the former Board who did make it, filed answer denying the invalidity of the redistricting. However, their answer also contained a counterclaim asking for a declaratory judgment, if the...

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