Barret v. Godshaw
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cases 17-29 — PETITION EQUITY . APPEALS EROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The papers filed with appellee’s petition are not certified so as to make them legal evidence. There is nothing in the charter of the city of Louisville indicating what shall be deemed an “ official copy,” or how an “official copy” of the records and official proceedings of the city council shall be certified. We must therefore look to the general law to ascertain the controlling rule.
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Cases 17-29 — PETITION EQUITY . APPEALS EROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The papers filed with appellee’s petition are not certified so as to make them legal evidence. There is nothing in the charter of the city of Louisville indicating what shall be deemed an “ official copy,” or how an “official copy” of the records and official proceedings of the city council shall be certified. We must therefore look to the general law to ascertain the controlling rule. The General Statutes (sec. 6, p. 411) provide that “A copy from the mayor’s office of any city, or from the official books of any town…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GOFER
delivered the opinion oe the court.
These appeals are prosecuted to reverse judgments rendered in two suits brought by the appellee to recover the contract price for grading and paving a part of Seventh Street in the city of Louisville, and involve some of the questions decided in the case of Preston v. Roberts, &c.* Of those questions no notice will be taken here.
The ordinance which is the foundation of the proceeding in one of these cases provided for the improvement of Seventh *598Street from the center of Ormsby Avenue to the north side ,of the ground owned by the Louisville &…
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