Willis v. K. & I. Bridge Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 26 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION, 1. It was error to overrule a demurrer to the petition and then instruct the jury peremptorily to find for the defendants after the plaintiff had proved the substantive averments of the petition. 2. Plaintiff had a right to recover against defendants for damages caused by the prudent operation of their trains. Exodus, chap. 6, verse 22; Lou. So. R. R. v. Cogar, 15 Ky.
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Case 26 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION, 1. It was error to overrule a demurrer to the petition and then instruct the jury peremptorily to find for the defendants after the plaintiff had proved the substantive averments of the petition. 2. Plaintiff had a right to recover against defendants for damages caused by the prudent operation of their trains. Exodus, chap. 6, verse 22; Lou. So. R. R. v. Cogar, 15 Ky. Law Rep., 444; Kentucky Constitution; Henderson Belt R. R. Co. v. Dechamp, 95 Ky., 225; Elizabethtown, &c., v. Combs, 10 Bush, 382; Kemper,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PAYNTER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, Willis, does not seek to recover damages to property which abuts on a street along which the tracks of the appellees are constructed; but his house, which he claims is damaged, is situated on a lot fronting on Montgomery street, in Parkland, across which the railroad track diagonally passes at a point about 75 feet from the house, and continues a southeast course until it passes the house at a point about 150 feet from it. The several tracks of the appellees are so constructed that the track we have described and other tracks form…
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