Paducah Ice Mfg. Co. v. City of Paducah

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammaok

Reversing.

This action was instituted by the City of Paducah to condemn a piece of property belonging to the Paducah Ice Manufacturing Company for the purpose of building a flood wall. On the property was an old two story brick building in reasonably good repair equipped for the storage of ice and which was used as a distribution point by the company. Some effort was made by the city to purchase the property before the institution of the action, but the effort seems to have been something in the nature of a “take it or leave it” offer by the Land Acquisition…