Board of Councilmen v. Scott
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 90 — Agreed Case 1. It is not essential that the citizen should receive all the benefits of a. city government, before he can he taxed by it. Dillon on Municipal Corporations, vol. 2, sec. 795. 2. The agreed facts show that appellant’s lands within the city limits are not used strictly for agricultural purposes, but that it is a beautiful, modern, handsomely improved residence with yard and garden attached, and gets the practical benefits from the city government.
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Case 90 — Agreed Case 1. It is not essential that the citizen should receive all the benefits of a. city government, before he can he taxed by it. Dillon on Municipal Corporations, vol. 2, sec. 795. 2. The agreed facts show that appellant’s lands within the city limits are not used strictly for agricultural purposes, but that it is a beautiful, modern, handsomely improved residence with yard and garden attached, and gets the practical benefits from the city government. Trustees of Elkton v. Gill, 14 Ky. Law Kept., 755; Dillon on Municipal Corporations, vol. 2, p. 791; Cheaney v. Hooser, 9 B.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WHITE
delivered the opinion op the court.
This is an appeal from the Franklin Circuit Court, rendered in favor of appellee upon the following agreed statement of facts: That the appellant is the corporate name by which the municipal corporation, known as the city of Frankfort, in Franklin county, Ky., may sue and be sued; that in the year 1873, appellee, Jno.L.Scott,purchased a tract of land of about twenty-seven, a eres, then lying outside of the city limits of Frankfort — nearly one-third of a mile outside*; that in 1876 said appellee built a valuable residence thereon, there being no…
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