Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming as to Commonwealth and reversing as to Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and B. M. Starks, its general manager, W. F. Sheridan, its superintendent, and F. J. Fishback, its trainmaster, were indicted by the grand jury of Bullitt county for the offense of maintaining a common nuisance in the city of Shepherdsville, the county seat of Bullitt county. On a trial before a jury the railroad company was found guilty and its punishment fixed at a fine of $8,420. Pursuant to a peremptory…