Justices of the Clarke County Court v. Paris, Winchester, & Kentucky River Turnpike Co.

delivered tlie opinion of tlie Court

Judge Simpson did not sit in this case.

By the 24th section of an act approved the 25th of February, 1848: (Session Acts, 1847-8, page 284,) the County Courts of Bourbon and Clarke counties were respectively authorized to take and subscribe stock for their respective counties in the Paris, Winchester and Kentucky river Turnpike Road Company incorporated by that act, and were empowered respectively to assess the amounts of stock so subscribed upon all the property and estate subject to the payment of State revenue within their respective limits.

At the July…