Spence v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

This action was brought in the name of the commonwealth against the appellants under the authority of section 4076d of the Kentucky Statutes, for the purpose of forfeiting to the state and selling for taxes a body of land in Harlan and Bell counties, containing some four thousand-acres. In January, 1910, a judgment was rendered directing the commissioner to sell the land for'cash and out of the proceeds pay first the attorney fees and costs of the suit and report his acts of the court. On April 25, 1910, the commissioner filed a report setting out…