Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Lang

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

The Western Union Telegraph Company filed in the McCracken County Court a condemnation suit against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company to condenm a right of way for a telegraph line over and along the right of way of the two railway companies under section 4679a, Kentucky Statutes. Thereupon the *703two railway companies brought this action against James M. Lang, the judge of the McCracken County Court, to prohibit him from proceeding in the action on the ground that the…