Elizabethtown & Paducah R. R. v. Thompson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 11 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. I. That part of the judgment brought into question by the cross-appeal-is right. (Rowan’s heirs v. Portland, 8 B. Mon., 237; Wicldiffe v. Lexington, 11 lb., 163.) 2. Appellees are entitled to no compensation on account of the construction and operation of appellee’s road in the street.
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Case 11 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. I. That part of the judgment brought into question by the cross-appeal-is right. (Rowan’s heirs v. Portland, 8 B. Mon., 237; Wicldiffe v. Lexington, 11 lb., 163.) 2. Appellees are entitled to no compensation on account of the construction and operation of appellee’s road in the street. (Cosby v. 0. & R. R. R. Co., 10 Bush, 291; Angelí on Highways, 7.) 3. The exceptions to the commissioners’ report should have been sustained. (Iíord v. Lee, 5 Mon., 65; Bell v. Barrett, 6 J. J. Mar., 520; Cook v. Redman, 2 Bush, 53; 2 B. & Ad., 341; 9 Ad.…
1Opinion of the Court
'CHIEF JUSTICE COFER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The heirs of Alfred Thompson owned a tract of about forty-five acres of land adjoining the southern boundary of the city of Louisville. Commissioners appointed to make partition between them, reported that, considering the land more valuable as town lots than for agricultural purposes, they had made a plat for its partition, upon which Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth streets of the city, which abutted against the land, were extended through It. Other streets were laid down, and the land divided into squares and lots of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rowan's Ex'rs v. Town of PortlandCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1847
- Wickliffe v. City of LexingtonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1850
3Cited by7 opinions
- Volpenheim v. WesterfieldCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1926
- Marshall v. KentCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1925
- Schickli v. KeelingCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1948
- Houser v. Paducah & Illinois RailroadCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1917
- Louisville & Nashville R. v. City of OwensboroCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1951
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