Louisville Home Telephone Co. v. City of Louisville
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 77. — MANDAMUS BY THE LOUISVILLE HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY -AND ANOTHER AGAINST THE CITY OP LOUISVILLE AND OTHERS. — Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Common Pleas Branch, Second Division). Thos. R. Gordon, Judge. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. — No briefs. Record out of office.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Special Judge D. W. Lindsey —
Reversing.
The ease presented by the record is an application by the Louisville Home Telephone Company and John Coleman against the city of Louisville and certain named persons, who constitute the “board of public works”-of said city, for a writ of. mandamus to compel such “board of public works” to.advertise and sell at public sale a certain telephone franchise in said city, claimed to have been provided for, and its advertisement and sale directed to be made by such board, by an ordinance of the general council of said city, alleged to have…
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