Boyd's Exor v. Laurel County

Opinion op the Court by

Wm. Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

By an act which became a. law May 10th, 1884, the Legislature authorized the county court of Laurel county to issue bonds for the purpose of building a courthouse. Pursuant to the authority so given, the county court issued seventeen.bonds of the par value of $1,000 each and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum. These bonds were serially numbered from one to seventeen, inclusive, and each was spread upon the record of the Laurel county court. Bond No. 17 was sold and delivered to Joseph A. Craft, who, on January…