Reams v. Laurel County

Opinion of the Court by Chief

Justice Perry

Reversing.

This suit was instituted in the Laurel circuit court on May 15, 1941, by appellant, ¥m. Reams, against Laurel County for the specific performance of a contract made between them on January 10, 1935.

The facts leading up to the execution of the contract, as disclosed by the record, are as follows:

In June, 1934, the State Highway Commission decided to improve and reconstruct what was then known .as the “Old State Road” between London and Barbour-ville and extending from London, in Laurel County, to the Knox County line.

It appears further that…