Bell's Committee v. Board of Education

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

William Con Bell, a person of unsound mind, owned a tract of land in Mercer .county, Kentucky, containing in the neighborhood of three hundred acres, 12.9 'acres of which were within the corporate limits of Harrodsburg, a city of the fourth class. On the 9.th of December, 1920, the appellee, board of education of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, instituted this proceeding in the Mercer county court against Bell, the owner of the land, and his com*702mittee, the appellant, State Bank and Trust Company, of Plarrodsburg, Kentucky, to condemn that portion of the…