City of Pikeville v. Dils

Opinion op the .Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

"When the fiscal court of Pike county constructed a bridge across the Big Sandy river, at Pikeville, in 1908, the embankment approach to the bridge upon the town side of the river occupied, practically, the whole of Shop street for the distance of one city block. This was done pursuant to an ordinance of the city of Pikeville. The end of the embankment next to the river was between four and five feet high. The appellees owned a lot extending along Shop street on the west side of the embankment.

On May 5, 1913, John A. Dils, and his mother…