Ridgeley v. Town of West Fairmont

ENGLISH, Judge:

This was an action of trespass on the ease brought by William Ridgeley against West Fairmont, a municipal corporation, in the circuit court of Marion County. The facts upon which the suit is predicated!, as appears from the *446pleadings, are that the plaintiff was the owner of about one acre of land, except the coal underlying the same, which fronted on the public highway, known, in 1892, as the “Fairmont and Weston Turnpike,” on which was situated a two story frame dwelling house, and a two story frame store house jointly, both of which buildings stood near saidl turnpike.…