MEREDITH v. SEARS


427 S.W.2d 813 (1968)

Roger MEREDITH, Charles Mills, Robert E. Vial, Wilma Britton, and Ethel Hampton, Individually, and as Directors of the Knox County Public Library, Appellants, v. William SEARS, Homer Lee Jackson, Pascal Hembree, Silas Carnes, Ellis Messer, Lloyd Hammons, J. T. Sullivan, W. D. Wyan and Joe Shields, as individual members of the Knox County Fiscal Court, a Body Corporate and J. E. McDonald, Knox County Court Clerk, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luker, Luker & Roberts, London, for appellants.

Hamm, Taylor & Milby, London, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

Proponents of a public library district for Knox County filed with the Knox County Fiscal Court, pursuant to KRS 173.710 to 173.800, a petition for establishment of such a district. The petition bore 2,868 names of purported registered voters, being 204 more than the number required by the statute (51 percent of the number who voted at the last general election in the county). On July 11, 1967, the fiscal court adopted an order establishing the...

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