Samuel Blatchford

“ Lewis county adjoins Mason on the east, and Greenup adjoins Lewis on the east. All three of them ile along the south bank of the Ohio river. The next county in Kentucky east of Greenup is Boyd, and the Big Sandy river, after being for some distance the boundary between Kentucky and West Virginia, empties into the Ohio river, in Boyd county, only a short distance eastward of the line between Greenup and Boyd counties. For the railroad to reach the Big Sandy river it was necessary it should pass for a short distance through Boyd county. ”

“ Many questions were discussed by counsel at the bar and in their briefs, and we have given attention to all the views and arguments on the part of the respective appellants, but the considerations above stated, on which the case was disposed of by the circuit court, seem to us to be controlling, and to make it unnecessary to say anything further. ”

“ The executive committee of the Great Eastern Company accepted this proposition, and reported it to the board of directors of that company at a meeting held by them, and it was on the twenty-third of August, 1871, approved by that board. ”

“ The gravamen of the petition is that the construction company had, under its contract, expended large sums of money, and incurred much debt, in work on part of the line from Maysville to Catlettsburgh, completing about seven miles of it, and purchasing and putting down the iron rails and other materials ”

“ That it will pay, in further consideration aforesaid, to the parties of the second part, in cash, or, in lieu thereof, in an equipment bond, secrued by mortgage on the equipment of the road, its earnings, and the road itself, if the legal consent of the stockholders can be obtained thereto, for the sum of one million two hundred thousand (1,200,000) dollars. ”