Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Todd

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided November 3, 1873PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Oases 38, 39 — IN EQUITY APPEALS FROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Session Acts 1855-6, p. 97, act of March 10,1856. Act of March 28, 1861. Act of February 1, 1858, concerning the Penitentiary.

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Oases 38, 39 — IN EQUITY APPEALS FROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Session Acts 1855-6, p. 97, act of March 10,1856. Act of March 28, 1861. Act of February 1, 1858, concerning the Penitentiary. Act of February 6, 1869, to release part of the rent. 2 Stanton’s Revised Statutes, 351. CITED Revised Statutes, Myers’s Supplement, 362-5. Session Acts 1869, p. 22. Constitution, sec. 34, art. 2. Session Acts 1861 (March 28, 1861), p. 22. Session Acts 1867, p. 88. Bacon’s Abridgment, title “ Pleas and Pleading,” I, 11. Coke on Littleton, 352, 305. Sedgwick on Constitutional and Statutory Law, 57,…

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE PETEES

delivered the opinion oe the court.

H. I. Todd, having completed one term as lessee and keeper of the state prison, was elected for a second term, to commence on the 1st day of March, 1867. On the 9th of the same month an act of the General Assembly was approved fixing the annual rent to be paid by the lessee to the state at the sum of sixteen ■ thousand dollars. On the same day another act was passed providing for certain improvements to be made to the prison, such as alterations in the shops, additions to the cell-houses, and for other necessary repairs.

Todd failed to execute…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. McReynolds v. SmallhouseCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1871
  2. Simpson County Court v. ArnoldCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1870

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State v. WeatherbySupreme Court of Missouri · 1939
  2. State ex rel. Young v. HolgateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
  3. Commomwealih v. BarkerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1907
  4. Lipson v. Univ. of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 2018
  5. State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Lovett-Carnahan Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1929

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