Langhan v. City of Louisville

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt —

Reversing.

The city of Louisville is a city of the first class, and the manner of reducing its limits, or extending them by the annexation of territory, which is contiguous to its present boundaries, is governed by the provisions of sections 2761 to, and including 2764, Kentucky Statutes. On the 5th day of October, 1918, in accordance with the provisions of the above mentioned statutes, the general council of the city, adopted an ordinance, providing for the annexation to the city of something in excess of eight thousand acres of land, which included two…