Department of Motor Transp. v. City Bus Co.

MOREMEN, Justice.

The sole issue before the court is whether the term “ten miles” in the' statute, KRS 281.010(15), is to be construed as air miles or road miles. The circuit court construed! the term to mean “air miles.”

KRS 281.010(15) provides:

“ ‘Suburban area’ means territory wholly within the State of Kentucky which extends not more than two air miles beyond the corporate limits of any municipality and one mile additional for each fifty thousand population or major fraction thereof, and, where one or more municipalities are-contiguous or adjoining", the combined population of such…