Lexington & Eastern Railway Co. v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioneig

Affirming.

This is the third time this controversy, in one form or another, has been in this court.

In August, 1910, and prior thereto, 'appellees, Hi ram . and Jane Williams, husband and wife, were the joint owners of a tract of land in Letcher county lying on both sides of the North fork of the Kentucky river. On the 31st of August, 1910, Hiram Williams entered into a writ*663ten contract -with the L. & E. Railway Company, by which he agreed to convey to it a right-of-way through the farm for an agreed consideration per acre for the hill land taken by…