McGee v. City of Williamstown

STEWART, Judge.

During the summer of 1954, after experiencing a severe water shortage for two years, the City of Williamstown deemed it expedient to enlarge its water supply by the construction of a supplemental reservoir near that city. Prior to this time the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Commonwealth of Kentucky had been pursuing a plan to create a lake near Williamstown as a conservation measure and had secured twenty-eight easements which represented most of the land needed. These easements were virtually unrestricted as to use. In 1954 the Department, having decided to…