Fenley v. City of Louisville
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 71- — Action by the City of Louisville Against Oscar Fenley and Others to Recover City Taxes on Real -Estate. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION, NO. 1-SHACKELFORD MILLER, judge. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals.
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Case 71- — Action by the City of Louisville Against Oscar Fenley and Others to Recover City Taxes on Real -Estate. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION, NO. 1-SHACKELFORD MILLER, judge. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. We submit that the judgment is erroneous: (1) Because it sells the property of Fenley and wife for a head tax against Johnson. .(2) Because it sells the property of Fenley and wife on an .assessment made against Johnson alone, without service of process against Johnson, and under a judgment rendered when Johnson was dead. Payne v. Arthur, 16…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BARKER
Reversing.
This action was instituted in the Jefferson circuit court, chancery division, for the purpose of recovering against William Johnson and Mary E. Fenley and Oscar Fenley, her husband, municipal taxes for the years 1895, 1S96, 1897, and 1898 on a parcel of land 57 by 92 feet, with improvements thereon, on the southeast corner of Green and Floyd streets, being lot No. 1 in block 75 on the city assessor’s maps. It is alleged in the petition that the above-named persons were, on the 1st day of September of each of the years 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1897,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnson v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1868
3Cited by6 opinions
- Duffley v. McCaskeySupreme Court of Missouri · 1939
- Davie's v. City of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
- City of Louisville v. SonneCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1912
- Rissberger v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1905
- Dumesnil v. City of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1881
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