Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. v. Johnson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

By this condemnation proceeding, the appellant seeks the acquisition of 4.07 acres of the appellee’s farm for the purpose of constructing a railroad. The farm lies between the two arms of a large bend of the middle fork of the Kentucky river. It is bounded on' its northerly and southerly side by the river and on its easterly side by the land of James Madison Johnson, which lies between appellee’s farm and the tip of the bend of the river. The property sought to be condemned is a strip running along the eastern edge of the appellee’s farm and from…