Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

The appellees are the owners of a farm in Breathitt county containing about 262 acres of land. In outline it resembles a low-cut shoe. It lies in a bend of the Kentucky river, which, to continue the illustration, flows along the sole of the shoe to the toe, then over the toe and up the tongue of the shoe to about where it reaches the instep. The appellant proposed by this proceeding to condemn a right of way through this farm from the upper part along its eastern boundary and across the instep to the sole. The proposed road of the appellant…