Kern v. City of Mount Sterling

Opinion op the Court by

Cheep Justice Thomas

Affirming.

Mt. Sterling is a city of the fourth class and is the county seat of Montgomery county. The total assessed valuation of ad valorem taxpaying property within its corporate limits for the year 1929 was $2,707,135, and it had no outstanding indebtedness. It needed new fire extinguishing apparatus and machinery, as well as improved quarters for housing it and for the use of the firemen. It was estimated by its city council that the cost of supplying such necessities would be $15,000, which could not be paid out of the 1929 revenue for the city…