Commonwealth Ex Rel. Harper v. Graham

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming.

Upon refusal of the Attorney General so to do, this action was instituted by H. A. Harper and James M. Molloy, as citizens and taxpayers, against appellees, James H. Graham, Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Kentucky, certain members of the Board of Trustees, and Frank D. Peterson, Comptroller of the University, to recover Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Four Dollars and Ninety-Three Cents ($14,374.93), which is alleged to have been paid Mr. Graham from State funds without his having rendered any service…