Letcher County v. Hogg

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

The .appellee, as plaintiff below recovered a judgment for $1,000.00 against Letcher county, which it seeks by this appeal to reverse. The facts are not made very clear by the evidence, but it seems that the Swán-Day Lumber Company and the Floyd Day Lumber Company some years ago secured from George Hogg the right to construct a pile trestle across the north fork of the Kentucky river, where it flows through his property, and upon which trestle they contracted a tramway, which they used for several years, and then sold it to Letcher county,…