Ward v. Roberts

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

Shade Ward, a resident and taxpayer of Johnson county, suing for himself and all other taxpayers of Johnson county, brought this action against Effie Roberts and B. F. Roberts, her husband, to recover for the county the sum of $646.31, interest alleged to be due on a loan of $1,000 out of the county road and bridge bond sinking fund made to the defendants by the Johnson fiscal court on March 11, 1924, and to enforce a mortgage on a house and lot in Paintsville executed by defendants to secure the loan. In the petition which was filed January 23,…