Ford v. Collins
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cash 77. — Proceeding to Change County Road. APPEAL from: warren circuit court. Judgment for Changing the Road and Dependant Appeals. 1. Under the law set forth in the General Statutes, any person might' by motion in the county court, obtain an order for the appointment of reviewers.
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Cash 77. — Proceeding to Change County Road. APPEAL from: warren circuit court. Judgment for Changing the Road and Dependant Appeals. 1. Under the law set forth in the General Statutes, any person might' by motion in the county court, obtain an order for the appointment of reviewers. The present statute requires a loritten petition, signed by five land owners, to be presented to and acted on by the court before an order can be properly made for the appointment of commissioners. Gen. Stat., chap. 94, art. 1, secs. 2 and 13; Ky. Stat., secs. 4289 to 4291; Portland, &c., Turnpike Co. v. Robb, 88…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court,by*
JUDGE BURNAM
Appikming.
In January, 1898, appellees instituted a proceeding in tlie Warren County Court, under the provisions of chapter 110 of the Kentucky Statutes, to change -the county road running from Smiths Grove to the Oakland road so as to run the new road through a tract of land owned by the appellant, J. W. Ford, thereby appropriating a strip of his land ninety-nine poles in length and thirty feet in width, and cutting off from the main body of his farm about forty acres of his tract. Appellant resisted the proposed change in the county road, but the- matter…
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