Curran v. City of Louisville

*593Opinion op the Court by

Judge Winn —

Affirming.

Mrs. Margaret Curran, the widow, and Charles Cur-ran, John Curran, Alice Curran, Nellie Curran, Anna Bell Curran and Margaret A. Curran, the only children and heirs of John Curran, deceased, filed this action in the court below, seeking to recover from the city of Louisville certain river-front real estate, and back rents on it. They set up, in substance, that in 1867 the city, in an action against their father, John Curran, had condemned the property for wharf purposes and a city basin; that .the city acquired no right to use the property for any…