Ogden v. Pulaski County

Pulaski County entered into a contract for the construction of a county road with appellants, under which contract there was due the sum of $13,229.51. A claim therefor against the county was disallowed by the county court on August 31,1931, for the reason that there were no county funds available for its payment. The circuit court so found upon an appeal from the disallowance order by the county court, and the judgment of the circuit court, from which is this appeal, recites that the claim was disallowed for the reason that the condition of the county’s finances would not permit its payment,…