Lexington & Georgetown Turnpike Road Co. v. Redd

Jddge Maksiiai.l

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

W. B. Redd, who resides about two miles and a quarter from Lexington, and whose land touches the Lexington and Georgetown Turnpike road a short distance beyond the first tollgate from Lexington, and who, in passing from his house to the road, upon his own land, necessarily reached the road outside of the first gate, so that he had to pass through the gate in going to and from Lexington; for the purpose of acquiring a passway into the road between the toll-gate and the city, leased a small strip of ground, 30 feet wide, by means of which he…