Transylvania University v. City of Lexington

The grounds of Transylvania, surrounded by open streets, were also formerly divided by Third street, which once separated that portion of the now continuous lawn, on which the buildings of the preparatory department *26stand, from the more elevated site of the College edifice. In 1831, prior to the erection of the latter structure, the Trustees of the University obtained from the Trustees of the then town of Lexington, their consent to the occlusion of so much of said street as divided the College grounds, with the proviso, that it should be again opened “whenever, in the opinion of (the) Board…