City of Georgetown v. Hambrick
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 7. — ACTION BY THE CITY OP GEORGETOWN AGAINST E. M. HAMBRICK TO ENJOIN HER PROM BUILDING A SIDEWALK Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. E. L. Stout, Circuit Judge. Prom a judgment of dismissal the plaintiff appeals POINTS AND AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. The city council” alone has power to cause public ways within the city to be improved, and to determine the extent and character of the improvements, and whether any shall be made at any particular place. (Ky.
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CASE 7. — ACTION BY THE CITY OP GEORGETOWN AGAINST E. M. HAMBRICK TO ENJOIN HER PROM BUILDING A SIDEWALK Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. E. L. Stout, Circuit Judge. Prom a judgment of dismissal the plaintiff appeals POINTS AND AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. The city council” alone has power to cause public ways within the city to be improved, and to determine the extent and character of the improvements, and whether any shall be made at any particular place. (Ky. Stats., sections 3560, 3563, 3568.) 2. Appellee has acquired no rights against the city by lapse of time. (Ky. Stats., section 2546.) 3.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Hobson
Affirming- -
About the year 1888, appellee’s husband, who- then owned property on the south side of Bourbon street, in Georgetown, between Hamilton and Mulberry, put down a curb and built for part of the front a sidewalk four feet wide. The street was in the outskirts of the town and was 30 feet wide. He devised the property to appellee, and she began in the year 1906 the construction of a pavement four feet wide within the .curb for the entire front of the property. The city council notified her'not to build it, and, she declining to recognize the notice,-…
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