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COVINGTON v. KENTUCKY

No. 152.

173 U.S. 231 (1899)

19 S.Ct. 383

43 L.Ed. 679

COVINGTON, v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1899.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Goebel and Mr. W.S. Pryor for plaintiff in error.

Mr. W.S. Taylor, Attorney General of Kentucky, and Mr. Ramsey Washington for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, a municipal 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...

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