COMMONWEALTH EX REL. HANCOCK v. CLARK


506 S.W.2d 503 (1974)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, ex rel. Ed W. HANCOCK, Attorney General, Appellant, v. Mataline CLARK, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Lawrence Duerson & Lawrence, Berea, Carl T. Miller, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellant.

G. Murray Smith, Jr., Richmond, for appellee.


PALMORE, Justice.

This is a proceeding in the nature of quo warranto by the Attorney General to oust the appellee, Mataline Clark, from serving as a member of the Madison County School Board for the reason that she is postmaster of a fourth-class post office and falls within the interdict of Ky.Const. § 237, as follows:

"No member of Congress, or person holding or exercising an office of trust or profit under the United States, or any of them, or under...

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