Robertson v. Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

These are appeals from judgments rendered in separate actions of condemnations,. The cases were tried together and will he considered in one opinion.

At the outset we are met by the contention that the court erred in ordering a joint trial over the objection of appellants. We have ruled, however, that, where the questions of law are the same and the tracts involved are similarly situated and not far apart, it is not an abuse of discretion to try the actions together. Waller v. Lee County, 187 Ky. 848, 220 S. W. 1071. Here the two tracts sought to be…