Hall v. Marshall
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 101 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM M’CRACKEN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. That a majority of the qualified voters in Ballard county did not vote in favor of removing the county seat from Blandville to Wicldiffe is confessed by the demurrer. 2. In taking the vote, the judges of the election disregarded the provisions of the act of 13th April, 1880. The act of April, 1880, is unconstitutional and void. 4. The proposition of Jenkins and the Nortons to the voters of the county was in the nature…
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Case 101 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM M’CRACKEN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. That a majority of the qualified voters in Ballard county did not vote in favor of removing the county seat from Blandville to Wicldiffe is confessed by the demurrer. 2. In taking the vote, the judges of the election disregarded the provisions of the act of 13th April, 1880. The act of April, 1880, is unconstitutional and void. 4. The proposition of Jenkins and the Nortons to the voters of the county was in the nature of offers to bribe the voters of the county. 5. The change of the county seat will greatly injure the commercial…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion oe the court.
By an act of the legislature, approved April ist, 1880, the voters of Ballard county were authorized to vote on the-question of removing the county seat of that county from Blandville to Wickliffe. The ist section of the act directed the vote to .be taken on the first Monday in August, 1880, and that the clerk should "prepare two columns in each and every poll-book, for the. purpose of ascertaining the desire of the people of said county in relation to the removing the county seat of said county from Blandville to Wickliffc, in said county. The…
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