Eagles v. Hafendorfer

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

This suit was commenced by H. B. Eagles as treasurer of Daviess county and the three commissioners composing the fiscal court of that county against Hafendorfer to recover of him upon three notes aggregating $500.00 which he executed to Eagles as a part of a fund to be raised by the county to induce the state and federal governments to locate and construct a highway from Louisville to Paducah, the same to be located through the neighborhood in which appellee’s farm was located. Appellee Hafendorfer admits the execution of the notes and…