Beckham County was dissolved by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on April 29, 1904.
Beckham County was ultimately named for then-governor J. C. W.
[1] A man named C. V. Zimmerman filed a lawsuit against Beckham County—specifically against its county judge, Captain C. C. Brooks—when Beckham County tried to collect a $75.00 debt from Zimmerman.
Zimmerman claimed that under an 1891 Kentucky Constitutional amendment, creation of Beckham County was unlawful because it left other counties with less than 400 square miles (1,000 km2) of land, and that Beckham County itself also had less than 400 square miles (1,000 km2) of land.
Beckham County was dissolved by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on April 29, 1904, because it was not created in conformance with state law.