Little v. Strow
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 58. — Action to Surcharge Sheriff’s Settlement — appeal from marshall circuit court. Judgment for Plaintiffs and Defendant Appeals. J. H. Little as sheriff of Marshall county collected taxes from the tax payers of Civil District No. 6 of said county which includes the town of Benton for the years 1895-96 and 97, which district had voted and subscribed for $15,000 of stock in the Paducah and Tennessee Railroad for which subscription bonds had been issued.
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Case 58. — Action to Surcharge Sheriff’s Settlement — appeal from marshall circuit court. Judgment for Plaintiffs and Defendant Appeals. J. H. Little as sheriff of Marshall county collected taxes from the tax payers of Civil District No. 6 of said county which includes the town of Benton for the years 1895-96 and 97, which district had voted and subscribed for $15,000 of stock in the Paducah and Tennessee Railroad for which subscription bonds had been issued. A levy having been duly made to pay the interest on said bonds, for each of said years, and each year he made a settlement with the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM —
Affirming.
By virtue of a provision of tlie charter of the Paducah' & Tennessee Railroad Company, civil district No. 6, in Marshall county, which embraces the city of Benton and a small contiguous territory outside of the city, subscribed for 150 shares of the capital stock of the railroad company, and issued bonds in payment thereof. The railroad charter provided that, if any civil district in any county should subscribe to the capital stock of the railroad company, the county court in which such subscription was made by any civil district should make an…
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