Magoffin County v. Rigsby

SIMS, Judge.

This appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the Magoffin Circuit 'Court declaring that Magoffin County may not issue revenue bonds in the sum of $300,000 to build a court house and jail. A cross-appeal is prosecuted from so much of the judgment as held that the county could submit to the voters at the November 1957 general election the question of whether they are in favor of issuing bonds of the county in a sum not exceeding $300,000 to be paid by a special tax levy, the proceeds to be used in erecting a court house and jail.

The record shows the court house was totally…