Bosworth v. Batterton

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

— Reversing.

George W. July, as administrator of Laura Bell Judy, failed to pay an inheritance tax, which the sheriff of Bourbon County conceived he should have paid, and the sheriff instituted a proceeding in the Bourbon County Court under Section 4281o, Ky. St., to enforce the tax. George Batterton, as county attorney of Bourbon County, prosecuted the proceeding in the county court which resulted in the payment to the Commonwealth of $28:75. He then brought this suit in the Frankin Circuit Coiirt against the Auditor to obtain a mandamus requiring…