Commonwealth ex rel. Baker v. Whayne Supply Co.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

This action was instituted by H. W. Baker and three other taxpayers of Owsley County, as relators of the Commonwealth, for the use and benefit of themselves and other taxpayers against the members of the fiscal court, several present and former county officials and the sureties on their respective bonds to recover alleged unauthorized and illegal expenditures of the county’s funds. Included as defendants were Whayne Supply Company and Bran-déis Machinery and Supply Company, both corporations with their principal offices in Louisville. It was charged that these defendants…