Reed v. Louisville Bridge Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 15 — PETITION— APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. CITED Act of 1856, incorporating Louisville Bridge Co., Sess. Acts, 427. Bevised Statutes, article 8, chapter 27. Myers’s Supplement, Act of 1865, page 561. Fitzherhert’s Natura Brevium, 498-503. Cooley’s Constitutional Limitations, 528, 538. 3 Blackstone’s Commentaries, 272-5. 6 Jacohs’s Law Dictionary, 458. 1 Nott & McCord, 387, Stark v. McGowan. 5 Rich.
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Case 15 — PETITION— APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. CITED Act of 1856, incorporating Louisville Bridge Co., Sess. Acts, 427. Bevised Statutes, article 8, chapter 27. Myers’s Supplement, Act of 1865, page 561. Fitzherhert’s Natura Brevium, 498-503. Cooley’s Constitutional Limitations, 528, 538. 3 Blackstone’s Commentaries, 272-5. 6 Jacohs’s Law Dictionary, 458. 1 Nott & McCord, 387, Stark v. McGowan. 5 Rich. L. B. 598, McLaughlin v. Bailroad Company. 4 McCord’s L. R. 541, Patrick v. Commissioners. 17 B, Monroe, 177, Henderson & Nashville R. B. Co. v. Dickerson. 4 Bailway Cases,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LINDSAY
delivered the opinion oe the court.
By the second section of “ an act to incorporate the Louisville Bridge Company” (2 Session Acts, 1855-1856, p. 426) it is provided “that said company be and they are hereby invested” with the right “to purchase or condemn by writ of ad quod damnum and hold as much real estate as may be necessary for the site of said bridge, or the sites for the piers, abutments, toll-houses, and suitable avenues leading to the same, and such other lands as may be necessary.”
Pursuant to this delegated authority the company filed a petition in the Jefferson Court…
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