Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Covington
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 3 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Civil Code, sec. 529. Ib., secs. 530, 531. Angelí Ames on Corporations, p. 191, sec. 195. Ib., p. 891, sec. 773. Ib.,p. 899, secs. 776 and 111. Acts 1835-6, p. 121. Acts 1850-1, vol. 2, p. 442. Acts 1853-4, vol. 2, p. 195. Acts 1855-6, vol. 1, p, 188.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WILLIAMS
delivered the osinioe or the court:
Covington and others, heirs of their deceased ancestor, E. M. Covington, brought suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and George Lehman to recover the lands granted by their ancestor to Pitts, Vanmeter, McReery, and Skiles, by deed dated February 16, 1836. Said grantees were corporators by an act of the Legislature, approved five days before the date of said deed, incorporating the Bowling Green Portage Railway Company. Said deed conveyed the right of way, and sixty feet for the same, through several lots in Bowling Green,…
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