Goodloe v. City of Richmond

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

In the summer of 1930, very severe drouth con ditions prevailed in the city of Richmond and Madison county, Kentucky, causing an acute shortage of the city’s public water supply.

The city, being apprehensive that a water famine might result from this threatened continued drouth condition, unless its water supply were conserved by precautionary restrictions imposed upon its use, on August .2, 1930, to such end, passed an ordinance, reciting that “due to the extended drouth and possibility of water famine in the city of…