Illinois Cent. R. v. City of Mayfield

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

For many years prior to 1897 plaintiff’s predecessors had owned and operated, under legislative franchises, a certain line of railroad from Paducah, Ky., through Graves county to Fulton, Ky. Prior to 1888 the road ran near the corporate limits of Mayfield, the county seat of Graves county, which was designated by Kentucky statutes as a city of the fourth class. Just outside the corporate limits, running substantially north and south, it crossed the Paducah and Columbus highway, running east and west, with its main line, a “passing” or “switch” track and a “team” track.…