W. T. Congleton Co. v. Turner

Opinion op the Court by

Oread, Commissioner

Reversing.

Under authority granted to cities of the fourth class by section 3579a-l, Kentucky Statutes, the city of Jackson by and through its city council enacted an ordinance in May, 1925, providing for the construction of a system of sanitary sewers at the exclusive cost of owners of lots abutting on streets where the sewers were laid. The ordinance provided that the sewers should be constructed on the five-year payment plan, but reserved to the owner or owners of lots subject to assessment under the ordinance the right of paying in cash the…