Bickett, Snyder, Brown & Burnett v. Meade County

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson

Affirming.

These four actions were separately commenced in the Meade circuit court hy Meade county and the State Highway Commission as plaintiffs, against appellants, Bickett, Snyder, Brown and Burnett, respectively, in the year 1921, to enjoin them and each of them from interfering with the construction of the federal highway, running from Louisville, Kentucky, to Paducah, Kentucky, passing over and through appellants ’ farms in Meade county, on the ground that Meade county and the highway commission had the right and privilege by written grant to…