Miller v. Bell

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellees brought this suit in the nature of mandamus to obtain a mandatory order requiring the Todd County Fiscal Court to adopt a resolution creating a library district (pursuant to KRS 173.720), and to levy a tax to finance the project. The requested relief was granted. We are first met with a procedural question which is dispositive of this appeal.

Under KRS 173.720, upon the filing of a duly certified petition of at least 51 percent of the number of duly qualified voters who voted in the last general election in each county within the territorial limits of the proposed…