Blanchard v. Maysville, Washington, Paris & Lexington Turnpike Co.

This is an action of debt, instituted by David Blanchard against “ the Maysville, Washington, Paris and Lexington Turnpike Road Company,'” to recover two hundred and twenty dollars, assessed (upon a writ of ad quod damnum,) as the damage resulting to him from the location and construction of the turnpike road of the company through his land.

After setting forth the acts of assembly in corporating the company and defining its rights, powers and duties, the declaration avers that, as the company was desirous to extend its road through Blanchard’s land without delay, he agreed that it might…