Chesapeake & Ohio Railway v. Blankenship

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, owns and operates a line of railroad from Catlettsburg, in Boyd County, up the Big Sandy River to the town of Louisa, in Lawrence County, this State, which is known as its Big Sandy Division and was originally constructed by the Chattaroy Railroad Company, which sold and conveyed it to the Ohio & Big Sandy Railway Company, and by the latter it was sold and conveyed to the appellant. The appellee, D. W. Blankenship, owns a lot and the dwelling house thereon, situated in the northern part of the town…