City of Louisville v. Colby

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

—Reversing.

The judgment in this case adjudges the appellee Geo. M. Eady Company a lien in the sum of $281.25, with interest from December 18, 1929, upon a llot in Louisville owned by the appellee, L. F. Colby, to satisfy street improvement warrants. The city in the appeal contends the lien should be for $386.25.

The statutes governing the five classes of cities other than the first class provide for the apportionment of the cost of original street improvements to property abutting thereon on a front foot basis, but the statute governing cities of the…