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DUNCAN v. SMITH

262 S.W.2d 373 (1953)

DUNCAN, County Atty. v. SMITH et al. SMITH v. DUNCAN, County Atty., et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 13, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Dudley Inman, Joe A. Wallace, Lawrence G. Duncan, Louisville, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Kentucky, Jo M. Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Kentucky, G. B. Johnson, Frankfort, and Arthur C. Coaplen, Louisville, for appellee.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., of Fla., Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen. of N.Y., Robert Y. Thornton, Atty. Gen. of Ore., William E. Powers, Atty. Gen., of R. I., Richard Callister, Atty. Gen. of Utah, Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen. of Colo., Edwin K. Steers, Atty. Gen. of Ind., John G. Fox, Atty. Gen. of W. Va., Theodore D. Parsons, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Richard H. Robinson, Atty. Gen. of N. M., Robert E. Smylie, Atty. Gen. of Idaho, Si Garrett, Atty. Gen. of Ala., H. Albert Young, Atty. Gen. of Del., amici curiae.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Arthur R. Smith, a citizen and taxpayer of Jefferson County, in a declaratory judgment proceeding against the county attorney and other appropriately selected defendants, questioned the validity of the Act of the 1950 General Assembly known as the "Uniform Support of Dependents Act," KRS 407.010 to 407.090. The chancellor, Honorable Macauley L. Smith, in a well reasoned opinion, upheld the Act. Smith and the county attorney have appealed, asserting...

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