Yount v. City of Frankfort

SIMS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from so much of a judgment as involves the validity of an annexation ordinance- of the City of Frankfort, and a determination of whether KRS 81.-190 violates the Constitution of Kentucky and the Constitution of the United States.

Frankfort, a third class city, early in 1950 passed an ordinance proposing to annex certain territory lying to the East and to the North of the city. Within thirty days after the second reading of the ordinance, appellants, who are residents and freeholders in the area sought to be annexed, filed this action in the Franklin Circuit…