Meacham v. Louisville N. R. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

The appellant, Mrs. Annie Hamner Meacham, sued appellee, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, for $10,000 damages alleged to have been done her farm when the company removed its tracks and a switch from lands her predecessors in title had conveyed the grantee as a right-of-way. The answer denied the damages and affirmatively averred in a second paragraph that it was a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce and that the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered it to' abandon this particular part of its line, which was a branch between Clay,…