City of Shepherdsville v. Gentry

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Shepherdsville, a city of the fifth class, seeks an order prohibiting Circuit Judge William R. Gentry from taking any further proceedings in an annexation-remonstrance suit pending in the Bullitt Circuit Court, or, in the alternative, prohibiting him from entering a default judgment in that suit without permitting the city to file answer and without conducting a trial on the merits.

The city had moved that the suit be dismissed on the ground that it was filed after the 30-day period allowed by KRS 81.110 (which is made applicable to fifth-class cities by KRS 81.230).…