Smith v. Cochran
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 16 — ORDER REMOVING AN OFFICER APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED Smith’s Commentary on Con. and Stat. Law, section 180. Act of June 3,1865, Myers’s Supplement, 563-4. Constitution of Kentucky, section 10, article 6. Constitution of Kentucky, section 2, article 4. Civil Code, sections 15, 804, 532. Revised Statutes, 1 Stanton, 303. Act of March, 1870, Sessions Acts, chapter 786. Dwarres on Statutes, page 705. Constitution of Kentucky, section 39, article 4. 1…
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Case 16 — ORDER REMOVING AN OFFICER APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED Smith’s Commentary on Con. and Stat. Law, section 180. Act of June 3,1865, Myers’s Supplement, 563-4. Constitution of Kentucky, section 10, article 6. Constitution of Kentucky, section 2, article 4. Civil Code, sections 15, 804, 532. Revised Statutes, 1 Stanton, 303. Act of March, 1870, Sessions Acts, chapter 786. Dwarres on Statutes, page 705. Constitution of Kentucky, section 39, article 4. 1 Dana, 449, Bruce v. Fox. 6 B. Monroe, 146, Gorham v. Luckett. 2 Metcalfe, 65, Turner v. Commonwealth^ 2 Institutes, 306,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This appeal presents for our consideration constitutional questions peculiarly interesting to the parties concerned and to the local public of Louisville, and important to the whole commonwealth of Kentucky.
On the 19th of March, 1870, the chancellor of “the Louisville Chancery Court,” without notice or accusation or trial, or even motion, made an order removing the appellant from the office of commissioner of his court, which he had held for several years, and to which he had been on the 12th of August, 1868, reappointed by the chancellor…
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