Woodruff v. Shea

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Lassing

Reversing.

Two questions are raised upon this appeal: First, the right or power of the fiscal court to create an office not provided for hy statute, and to provide for the compensation of the appointee to such office; and second, whether or not the members of the fiscal court and the county judge, sitting as a member of that body, are, under section 4281-t, subsection 2, of the Kentucky Statutes, liable-individually and on their official bonds for the money so expendéd, in the event it is held that the court was without power to create the office and make…