City of Louisville v. Henning
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 93 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED— City Charter of Louisville, sec. 1, art. 6, Act of March 24, 1851. CITED— 14 B. Mon., 651; Johnson vs. City of Lexington. 2 Metcalfe, 228; City of Covington vs. Powell. 30 Mo. Rep., 550. 11 American Law Register, 664.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Peters
The appellees brought this action in the court below to recover of appellant five hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, which they allege appellant assessed and collected as taxes on bonds held by them as residuary estate of their testator, without lawful authority to do so, and which they paid in ignorance of their rights.
Appellees’ right to recover was controverted in the answer. By agreement of the parties, the law and facts were submitted to the court' without the intervention of a jury, and the following question submitted for judicial determination : Had the city council the…
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