Louisville School Board v. City of Louisville
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 61 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. 1. As long as the injunction stands the school hoard can not take a school census under the provisions of the -act of March, 1898, ■and an early decision of the question involved is urged for that reason.
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Case 61 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. 1. As long as the injunction stands the school hoard can not take a school census under the provisions of the -act of March, 1898, ■and an early decision of the question involved is urged for that reason. I. The operation of the act in making it impossible to enumerate the pupil children residing in the whole district creates an inequality against the oity of Louisville that exists nowhere else in the State, \and the act is therefore unconstitutional. Constitution, secs. 183, 184 and 186;. Louisville School…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The question presented is one involving the validity of the Legislative act of March 1, 1898, regulating common schools in the city of Louisville. It is contended by the city and certain tax-payers therein that the entire act which is in the nature of an amendment to section 2974 of the Kentucky Statutes, touching common schools for that city, is unconstitutional because its provisions for enumerating and listing the children of pupil age are so different from the provisions of the law in all other common school districts in the State, as to…
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