Worth County v. Sykes

To influence the removal of the county seat of Worth •county from Isabella to Sylvester, citizens of the latter community agreed in public advertisement to erect a new court-house and a jail in the event of such removal, and as a guaranty of good faith ■deposited with the ordinary of the county certified checks for $10,-■C00. The removal was duly authorized. Afterwards the ordinary, -acting for the county, decided that it would be wise to erect buildings more commodious than those originally planned, and costing more than $10,000. It was thereupon agreed between the ordinary and the committee…