Kentucky Utilities Co. v. City of Paducah

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Siler

Affirming.

- City of Paducah and its officials, the appellees, filed suit under declaratory judgment law against Kentucky Utilities Company, the appellant, seeking a declaration of the existing rights between these parties under a 1940 electric franchise and also seeking a mandatory injunction against the company to require the latter to appoint an appraiser as a preliminary step looking toward an acquirement by the city of the company’s property at Paducah. The chancellor having declared that the city’s acquirement rights under the franchise are- valid and…