Brown v. Farmers' Deposit Bank

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Prior to the taking effect of chapter 17, Acts of 1920, each county in the commonwealth constructed and maintained its portion of through highways connecting county seats, and it was so done under what was designated as the “state and federal aid plan.” In the latter part of 1918 or the first part of 1919, the citizens of a number of counties in the commonwealth between Louisville and Paducah, Ky., began'an agitation for the construction of a through highway connecting those two cities. A great many if not all of the counties did not have, nor…