Commonwealth v. Blackwell

JUDGE GUFFY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of the Union Circuit Court rendered in the case of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, etc., against T. O. Blackwell. The petition substantially alleges that by an act of the General Assembly of 1870, the magisterial districts of Caseyville and Lindle in said county were authorized to issue $60,000 and $15,000, respectively, in bonds to aid in building the Madisonville & Shawneetown Straight Line Railroad, which bonds were issued and were sold by said railroad company, and that it was also provided that…