Hammond v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

On October 21,1918, the Lewis county court made an order granting to Charles ITammon a ferry franchise for ten years over the Ohio river from Yanceburg, Kentucky, to Sandy Springs, Ohio. On February 24, 1922, the county court served a notice on Hammond that a complaint had been filed in the court stating grounds and asking that the ferry franchise granted to him be forfeited and annulled, and that hearing of the motion would be had in that court on Monday, March 20, 1922. Upon the hearing of the case in county court it was adjudged that the…