Black's Executors & Trustees v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Creal, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The executors, trustees, heirs and widow of John A. Black, instituted this action against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company in the Knox circuit court alleging that they are the owners in fee and in the actual use and enjoyment of a line of railroad and all things thereunto appertaining. The line of railroad in question begins at or near the Plat Lick station on the railroad company’s line, and runs up Sandy branch a distance of albout 7,800 feet to a coal tipple on property owned by plaintiffs. This line of railroad diverges from…