Lexington & Eastern Railway Co. v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

-Affirming.

The appellees and defendants below, Hiram Williams and wife, are the joint owners of a small farm in Letcher county, Kentucky, through which runs the North Fork of. the Kentucky river. On August 31,1910, the husband entered into a written contract agreeing to convey to the appellant and plaintiff below a right of way through the farm should the railroad company conclude to use it in the extension of its road -east from Jackson, Kentucky. The agreed consideration was ten dollars per acre for all hill land taken, and fifty dollars per acre for all…