City of Louisville v. Kraft

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This appeal represents another chapter in the long history of litigation involving-efforts to establish municipal jurisdiction over the large, heavily populated community known as St. Matthews, lying- immediately east of the City of Louisville. The main issue in the legal war has been whether the community shall be annexed to Louisville, or shall become a separate municipality. Over the past ten years a great many battles in that war have reached this Court.

The present controversy concerns the effort of the City of Louisville to annex that part of the St. Matthews…