City of Louisville v. Louisville Rolling Mill Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 94 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED— Charter of Louisville, secs. 2, 6, art. 7, and sec. 10, charter of 1828. Arnr. Law Reg. 1865, Nov. No.; Mills vs. Brooklyn, p. 37. 2 Blackstone, 14, 264, 265. 7 Dana, 429 ; Briebaker vs. Paul, Sfc. 7 Johnson’s Chy. R., 328, 336; Jerome vs. Ross. Story’s Eq., Redfield’s ed., sec. 929. 25 Vermont R., 49; Hatch vs. Vermont C. Railway. 2'3 Ga. R., 402; Markham vs. Mayor, SfC. 2 Johnson’s Chy.
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CASE 94 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED— Charter of Louisville, secs. 2, 6, art. 7, and sec. 10, charter of 1828. Arnr. Law Reg. 1865, Nov. No.; Mills vs. Brooklyn, p. 37. 2 Blackstone, 14, 264, 265. 7 Dana, 429 ; Briebaker vs. Paul, Sfc. 7 Johnson’s Chy. R., 328, 336; Jerome vs. Ross. Story’s Eq., Redfield’s ed., sec. 929. 25 Vermont R., 49; Hatch vs. Vermont C. Railway. 2'3 Ga. R., 402; Markham vs. Mayor, SfC. 2 Johnson’s Chy. R., 463 ; Belknap vs. Belknap. MSS. Opns.; Louisville vs. Lyons, Sfc., and White, SfC., 1856. 1 Denio, 595; Wilson vs. Mayor, Sfc.,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGJE WILLIAMS
delivered the opinion op the court:
This is a controversy as to the right of the city, through her- constituted authorities, to regrade Brook street, so as to raise the grade, without compensation to appellees.
The lot involved in this controversy,- whereon is situated the Rolling Mill and its fixtures, costing some two hundred thousand dollars, is bounded four hundred and twenty feet on the south by Washington street, which runs parallel with the Ohio river; on the west three hundred and seventy-four feet by Brook street, running out from the river to the south boundary of the…
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