Covington v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice HaelaN
The plaintiff in error, a.iiiunicipal corporation of Kentucky, insists that by the final judgment of the Court of Appeals of that Commonwealth sustaining the validity of certain taxation of its water-works property, it has been deprived of rights secured by that clause of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits any State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts. That is the only question which this court has jurisdiction to determine upon this writ of error. Rev. Stat. § 709.
By an act of the general assembly of Kentucky approved May 1, 1886, the city of Covington…
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