District Board of Tuberculosis Sanitarium Trustees v. City of Lexington

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

— Affirming in part and reversing in part.

This appeal presents some interesting and important questions of- constitutional law affecting the validity and construction of several acts of the General Assembly relating to the establishment, erection, and maintenance of a tuberculosis sanatorium for Lexington and Payette county. In 1912 the Legislature created the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners, conferred upon it prescribed powers, and delegated to it defined duties coextensive with the state. The ultimate objects to be obtained were, so far as…