Whaley v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 19 — Action by Certain Tax Payers to Recover Against Sheriff, Money Alleged to Have Been Illegally Collected by Him as Taxes — Judgment in Favor of Tax Payers Against the Sheriff and His Sureties for a Part of the Tax, and the Sheriff and His Sureties Appeal.
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Case 19 — Action by Certain Tax Payers to Recover Against Sheriff, Money Alleged to Have Been Illegally Collected by Him as Taxes — Judgment in Favor of Tax Payers Against the Sheriff and His Sureties for a Part of the Tax, and the Sheriff and His Sureties Appeal. The Sheriff also Prosecuting an Appeal from a Judgment in Favor of Nicholas County for the Balance Found in His Hands of that Part of the Tax Held to be Valid; and Aius Wiggins Prosecuting an Appeal on Behalf of the Tax Payers, Because the Whole of the Tax, in Question, was not Adjudged Void. This is an appeal by H. Whaley, W.' B.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE O’REAR.
Under provisions of the 'Statute permitting counties to acquire turnpike and gravel roads within their limits either by donation, purchase, or condemnation, the fiscal c.ourt of Nicholas county, on June 25, 1897, contracted with the Maysville & Lexington Turnpike-Road Company, purchasing the latter’s road within that county at the agreed price of $23,000. At the previous November election the question had been duly submitted to the voters of the county whether they were in favor of free turnpike a.nd gravel roads, resulting in a vote of 1,6165 for to…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Daviess County v. DickinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Levi v. City of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1895
- Field v. StroubeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1898
- Dawson v. LeeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1884
- Pulaski County v. WatsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1899
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Overall v. City of MadisonvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1907
- Fiscal Court Owen Co. v. F. & A. Cox Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1909
- Black v. Elkhorn Coal CorporationCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1930
- Black v. Oklahoma Funding Bond CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1943
- McCrocklin v. Nelson County Fiscal CourtCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1917
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