Jones v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

The appellant brought this suit against the appellees to recover for the flooding of some property he owned in the village of Nuckols. The old highway between Owensboro and Livermore runs north and south through this village. In the fall of 1926, after the county of McLean had procured the necessary right of way, the state highway commission built a new public road between Owensboro and Livermore. This road where it passed through Nuckols paralleled the old highway about 100 feet or so to the east. At right angles to the old and new public…