Legal Opinion

Dumesnil v. Gleason

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 23, 1896PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Case 91 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. 1. Under the charter of the city of Louisville in making assessments for costs of public ways, the quarter square is the taxing district; and that being true, each quarter square should be assessed to pay for the improvements binding on it, and no more. (Cooper v. Nevin, 90 Ky., 85; Boone v. Nevin, 14 Ky. Law Rep., 547; Smelz v. Giles, 12 Bush, 494; Meyer v. Zell, 14 Ky.

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1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE LANDES

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case belongs to the same class of cases to which the oases of Beck v. Obst, &c., 12 Bush, 268; Smeltz &c., v. Giles, &c., Ib., 491; Washle, &c. v. Nehan, 3 Ky. Law Rep., *654387; and Dumesnil, &c. v. Shanks, &c., 17 Ky. Law Rep., 170, belong.

Each of these oases involved the question as do the apportionment of the cost of improvements in the interior of certain squares, in the city of Louisville, and originated under substantially the same statutory provisions regulating such assessments' and apportionments, which also apply to this case.

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2Cases cited3 opinions

Preston v. RobertsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1877
Beck v. ObstCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1876
City of Henderson v. BreckinridgeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1881

3Cited by1 opinion

Krumpelman v. Louisville & Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer DistrictCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1958