Barry v. Giles

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Tilford

Affirming.

The appellants are citizens and taxpayers of Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky, suing for themselves and on behalf of all other citizens and taxpayers similarly situated; the appellees are the mayor, board of commissioners, police judge, the prosecuting attorney of the City, and the members of the Fiscal Court of Bell County; and the object of the action was to determine the validity of an act of the 1944 session of the General Assembly (Chapter 40) compiled in the Kentucky Revised Statutes as Sections 199.031 to 199.034, inclusive. The…