Watson v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

W. F. Watson has appealed from a judgment dismissing his petition wherein he sought a jiidgmeut against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company for $10,000, which he alleges represents the diminution in the market value of his property because of the damage done to it by the railway company’s recently changing the grade, number, and location of its tracks on Railroad alley in Ashland, Ky., and thereby casting more water on his property, and destroying in part the ingress to and egress therefrom.

Watson’s property has a southern frontage of 100…