Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Hobbs

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

*131Tbe appellee, a colored woman, owned and lived in ,a small house about 525 feet north of the depot of appellant in the little town of Bloomfield, Kentucky. The house was situated about 60 feet west of appellant’s right of way, and appellee had been occupying it as her home for 30 years or more. On the opposite side of the railroad railroad from appellee’s house, and about 345 feet north of the depot, the appellant company liad a turntable, which had been in use for, probably 25 or 30 years, and that was operated in an excavation about 60 feet in…