State v. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co.

The indictment preferred against the appellee charges an obstruction of the public streets of the town of Bedford, and the public square therein, by railroad tracks and switches, and by a brick building used as a station, and by the manner in which the tracks, switches and station were used'. The appellee answered by a special plea, wherein it alleged that it had acquired the right to a line of turnpike road, projected by the State under the general system of internal improvements, under the act of 1836; that under the act allowing private corporations to take possession of such roads as were…