Lyon v. Holbrook

CULLEN, Commissioner.

An election was held in Magoffin County on the question of issuing bonds for the *863construction of a new courthouse and jail. The result of the election, as certified by the election commissioners, showed that the question had failed to receive the required two-thirds’ majority of favorable votes (Ky.Const, sec. 157). Recount proceedings were instituted, as a result of which a judgment was entered declaring that the question had carried by the required number of votes. One William H. Lyon, suing as a taxpayer and on behalf of all other taxpayers of the county, then brought…