Sizemore v. Clay County

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On January 20, 1936, the courthouse in Manchester, Clay County, Ky., was destroyed by fire. Seventy-five hundred dollars of insurance was collected by the county, but it was wholly insufficient to construct a. suitable courthouse and supply its furniture equipment. The county was then and now carrying a bonded indebtedness to the maximum limit of its constitutional authority and the revenues that the county could constitutionally raise by taxation were insufficient to produce an annual sum, over and above the amount necessary for governmental…