Louisville & Nashville R. v. City of Owensboro

HELM, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by appellant, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, from a judgment directing it to construct a grade crossing over certain of its yard tracks in the City of Owensboro.

Appellant’s freight house and its freight yards are located in the area bounded by Fourteenth Street on the north, Lewis Street on the east, Fifteenth Street on the south, and Frederica Street on the west. This tract was formerly owned by Harriett Triplett Johnson. In 1873 Mrs. Johnson and her husband, James L. Johnson, deeded a 39-acre tract to Francis Moore and James Z. Moore. The…