Legal Opinion
City of Lebanon v. Goodin ex rel. Goodin
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided March 20, 2014No. 2011-SC-000468-DGPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court By
Chief Justice MINTON.
The City of Lebanon sought to annex over four hundred acres of nearby property. Property owners subject to the annexation, including the Goodin Trust,1 sued to invalidate the annexation ordinance on the grounds that (1) the City had intentionally excluded property owners who were likely to be opposed to the annexation, effectively guaranteeing its success; and (2) the City acted unconstitutionally by arbitrarily and unreasonably extending the City’s boundaries and denying the property owners’ statutory right of remonstrance.
The trial court agreed…
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