Commonwealth v. Chinn
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 99 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. The countyof Fayette having been made a separate judicial district upon the legislative faith that it hada population of 40,000 or more and having obtained valuable rights, privileges and concessions on this asserted fact, she can not now be heard to deny the said population. 1. The legislature is not prohibited from rmstil ating a county having a population of less than 40;000 a separate district. • (Kentucky…
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Case 99 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. The countyof Fayette having been made a separate judicial district upon the legislative faith that it hada population of 40,000 or more and having obtained valuable rights, privileges and concessions on this asserted fact, she can not now be heard to deny the said population. 1. The legislature is not prohibited from rmstil ating a county having a population of less than 40;000 a separate district. • (Kentucky Statutes, sec. 1776.) .2. The legislative action as to Fayette county is conclusive only that. at the time of the passage of…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GRACE
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This appeal arises upon a rule sued out by the county attorney of Fayette county against G. G. Chinn,- the county clerk, and E. T. Gross, the sheriff of said county, requiring them to appear before the judge of the county court on the twenty-ninth day of January, 1895, to show cause why they should not name their several deputies in their respective offices, so that said county judge might fix the salaries of same, all this pursuant to sec. 1776 of the Kentucky Statutes. And all looking to a limitation of the fees of said officers respectively, as…
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