Leonard v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

Appellant and plaintiff below, A. F. Leonard, owns a farm in Mercer county. The appellee and defendant below, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company of Kentucky, is a corporation operating a telephone line, and it concluded to erect, or to reconstruct, a line of telephone from Frankfort, Ky., to Danville, Ky., a part of which traversed the farm of plaintiff. On April 7, 1930, pursuant to negotiations theretofore had, plaintiff and his wife executed a writing to defendant whereby they conveyed to it, in consideration of $500' then and there…