Lowden v. Excise Bd. of Pottawatomie County

The excise board of Pottawatomie county made an appropriation for the county highway fund for the fiscal year 1935-1936 and included therein the sum of $42,200.17, representing a balance in the hands of the county treasurer at June 30, 1935, to the credit of the emergency investment fund. This balance accrued between July 1, 1933, and May 13, 1935, from ap-portionments of revenues, from motor vehicle license fees and the excise tax on gasoline, made to the county and placed in the emergency investment fund under authority of chapter 137, S. L. 1933. Plaintiffs in error, protestants below,…