Mossett v. Newport & Cincinnati Bridge Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 60 — INJUNCTION AGAINST TAXES APPEAL PROM CAMPBELL CIRCUIT COURT. Counsel stated the points relied on by plaintiff below, the present appellee, ás grounds for its injunction, as follows: 1. That .the county court appointed the board of supervisors on November 21, 1898, at Newport, instead of appointing them on November 1, 1898, .at the county seat, Alexandria. 2. The county court appointed a board consisting of twelve men, when it ought to have appointed only eight. 3.…
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Case 60 — INJUNCTION AGAINST TAXES APPEAL PROM CAMPBELL CIRCUIT COURT. Counsel stated the points relied on by plaintiff below, the present appellee, ás grounds for its injunction, as follows: 1. That .the county court appointed the board of supervisors on November 21, 1898, at Newport, instead of appointing them on November 1, 1898, .at the county seat, Alexandria. 2. The county court appointed a board consisting of twelve men, when it ought to have appointed only eight. 3. The board of supervisors never met at the county seat on January 1,1899, but -in Newport. 4. The board of supervisors…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BURNAM
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company seeks in this action to enjoin the Board of Supervisors for Campbell county from increasing the assessment of its bridge and approaches over the valuation placed thereon by the assessor. The grounds upon which it relies are that the orders appointing the defendants supervisors of taxes are void for the following reasons: First, because they were made at Newport on the third Monday in November, 1898, instead of at Alexandria, the county seat, on the first Monday in November; second, because the county…
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