Raines v. East Tennessee Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Payette Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice Hobson—
Beversing.
In the year 1888, Crosthwait and Spottswood bought a tract of land known as the Waters’ property at the corner of Short and Deweese Streets in Lexington, Ken tucky. On the Deweese side of the. property there was a roadway leading into it. Crosthwait and Spottswood sold off lots fronting on this roadway, which was called Locust Avenue and was twenty feet wide. Continuously since that time Locust Avenue has been an open way used by the purchasers of lots abutting on it. It has never been accepted by the city as a street, and the city has in…
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