Commonwealth ex rel. Clay County v. Howard
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 82 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM CLAY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The law considers the session of a county court us but one day, and the special term of the Clay County Court, beginning 1st day of January, 1890, and extending without adjournment to 4th of January, 1890, when it adjourned and its orders were signed, was but “one day” of the court; and it was not necessary that the minutes of the county court should have been approved the very day the bond was accepted and…
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Case 82 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM CLAY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The law considers the session of a county court us but one day, and the special term of the Clay County Court, beginning 1st day of January, 1890, and extending without adjournment to 4th of January, 1890, when it adjourned and its orders were signed, was but “one day” of the court; and it was not necessary that the minutes of the county court should have been approved the very day the bond was accepted and approved by the court in order to make the bond valid, but it was sufficient if they were approved at the expiration of that…
1Opinion of the Court
'JUDGE GUFFY
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This action was instituted in the Clay Circuit Court in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the use of Clay county against A. B. Howard, late sheriff of Clay county, and the other-named appellees, his sureties on his 'bond for the collection of ad valorem taxes, authorized to be levied and collected for the use and benefit of Clay county for the year 1890.
It is claimed in the pleadings that the said sheriff had collected the same, and that there was due from him $3,459.90, with interest from the 8th of May, 1893, which he; on proper…
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- Howard v. Farmer, SheriffCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1937
- Walker v. FoxCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1926
- Louisville N. R. Co. v. Bullitt Cty.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1933