Judge grants restraining order preventing movement of Confederate monument [View all]
Daviess Circuit Judge Lisa Payne Jones has ordered the Confederate monument not be moved from the Daviess County Courthouse for now.
Jones granted a request by the Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to prohibit Daviess Fiscal Court from moving the statue from the courthouse lawn.
The ownership of the 121-year-old statue is in dispute between Fiscal Court and the Kentucky UDC. Fiscal Court would like to move the statue off the courthouse lawn, and county Judge-Executive Al Mattingly previously said he was in discussions with an undisclosed party about taking it.
The UDC claims they have owned the statue since 1970 when the John C. Breckenridge Chapter 306 UDC dissolved. The UDC argues the county merely gave permission for the statue to be placed on the courthouse lawn in 1900.
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(Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer)
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