LASTER v. PRUNISKI

No. 5-1484.

306 S.W.2d 123 (1957)

Robert W. LASTER, Appellant, v. John PRUNISKI, L. A. Moorman and Wm. H. Laubach, as members of Board of Election Commissioners for Pulaski County, Arkansas, and John L. Sullivan, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dave E. Witt and Kenneth Coffelt, Little Rock, for appellant.

J. Frank Holt, Pros. Atty., Eugene R. Warren, Little Rock, for appellees.


HOLT, Justice.

The facts in this case appear not to be in dispute. On December 31, 1956, Judge Murray O. Reed, the then Judge of the Little Rock Municipal Court, Second Division, resigned which created a vacancy in the office. January 2, 1957, the Governor of Arkansas appointed John L. Sullivan to succed Reed. This was more than nine months prior to the next general election, and on the same date the practicing attorneys in attendance on that Court attempted to elect...

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