Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. v. City of Louisville
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 83 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. 1. The burden of proof was upon the plaintiffs, and it was error to deny to them the right to conclude the argument to the jury. (Ky.
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Case 83 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. 1. The burden of proof was upon the plaintiffs, and it was error to deny to them the right to conclude the argument to the jury. (Ky. Statutes, secs. 2760, 2761, 2762, 2763, 2764; O’Connor & McCulloch v. Henderson Bridge Co., 27 S. W. Rep., 251; 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, note Tto sec. 74.) 2. The jury should have been impaneled from the territory beyond-the limits of either Louisville or South Louisville. Kemper v. City of Louisville, 14 Bush, 87, distinguished. 3. The verdict is flagrantly against the…
1Opinion of the Court
•JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the oeinion oe the court.
Within thirty days after the passage of "an ordinance by the appellee, providing for the annexation of the town of ■South Louisville to the City of Louisville, the appellants, residents and free holders of the town, filed their petition .in the Jefferson Circuit Court, “setting forth the reasons why such territory, or any part thereof, should not be annexed.” The city answered denying the allegations of the petition, and seeking to avoid the force of the reasons urged against the annexation, and set up reasons why the ordinance should be…
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