Kentucky Traction & Terminal Co. v. Murray

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Settle—

Reversing.

May 15, 1894, the appellee, James A. Murray, and his wife, by deed executed to the Capital Railway Company, a corporation created under the laws of Kentucky, and then owning and operating a street railway in the city of Frankfort and suburbs, conveyed to it the right of way through and over a body of land contiguous to the city of Frankfort, owned by them. A'part of the consideration for this conveyance was the right to the appellee and his family to travel upon the cars of the railway company without other or further payment of fare.…