Louisville v. Nevin
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 22—PETITION EQUITY— APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED Dillon on Municipal Corporations, section 616. Charter of 1870 of Louisville, section 7. 8 Bush, 518, Broadway Baptist Church v. McAtee & Cassily. 4 Corns. 419, People v. New York. 11 Johnson, 77. 7 Md. 517, Baltimore v. Cemetery Company. 4 Gill, 394, Dolan v. Baltimore. 31 Penn. St. 69, Pray v. Northern Liberties. CITED Amendment of Feb. 20, 1873, of Charter of Louisville.
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Case 22—PETITION EQUITY— APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED Dillon on Municipal Corporations, section 616. Charter of 1870 of Louisville, section 7. 8 Bush, 518, Broadway Baptist Church v. McAtee & Cassily. 4 Corns. 419, People v. New York. 11 Johnson, 77. 7 Md. 517, Baltimore v. Cemetery Company. 4 Gill, 394, Dolan v. Baltimore. 31 Penn. St. 69, Pray v. Northern Liberties. CITED Amendment of Feb. 20, 1873, of Charter of Louisville. Act of Feb. 20, 1864, Myers’s Supplement, 482. 8 Bush, 518, Broadway Baptist Church v. McAtee & Cassily. 7 Md. 157, Mayor of Baltimore v. Green Mount…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The appellee Nevin brought this suit in the Louisville Chancery Court to enforce an alleged lien on a lot of ground on the south side of Jefferson Street in said city for the price of regrading, recurbing, and repaving the sidewalk along the front of the lot.
The lot was conveyed by the city in 1834 to be held in trust for the use of the Roman Catholic congregation in Louisville as a burying-ground, and has been filled with graves for more than twenty years, and has never been used since 1834 for any other purpose than as a graveyard; and it is…
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