Gatton v. Fiscal Court

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Affirming.

A special election was regularly called, and held in Daviess county on June 22nd, 1915, upon a proposition to issue bonds of the par value of $600,000.00, for the purpose of building roads and bridges, in that county. The election commissioners canvassed the vote and reported to the county court that 4,373 votes were cast for the proposition, and 2,445 against it. It will thus be seen that the proposition to issue bonds obtained the assent of a majority, but not of two-thirds of the electors who voted at said election.

Conceiving that under…