Rice v. Danville, Lancaster & Nicholasville Turnpike Road Co.

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court. The Chief Justice did not sit in this case.

This was a proceeding by the President and Directors of the Danville, Nicholasville and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company, instituted in the Garrard Circuit Court, for the purposes of appropriating to the use of said Company, for the objects contemplated by its charter, so much of the lands of George Rice, Joshua Burdett, John Byers and Asael Davis, lying within the county of Garrard, as was necessary for making the road.

The act of incorporation, sections fifteenth and sixteenth, authorizes ths…