Reed v. City of Paducah

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming..

Jefferson street, in Paducah, is 100 feet wide. Through the center of the street, the street railway company held, by deed, a right of way 20 feet in width, but in the spring of 1927 the company executed a deed conveying this 20 feet to the city for street purposes. The city council after this passed an ordinance for the improvement of the street, by the construction of a hard-surfaced driveway 25 feet wide on either side of a strip 26 feet wide in the center of the street. Twelve feet on each side was reserved for sidewalks. By the terms…