Grants Like Turnpike
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 29 January 1903, page 5
Peter Wechman (sic) filed suit in the Circuit Court in Newport Wednesday afternoon against the Grants Lick and Old State Road Turnpke Company for the recovery of $1500 damages to his property.
He alleges that the defendant company constructed a culvert and a number of water breaks across the road, adjacent to the plaintiff's farm near Grants Lick. He claims it caused the water to change its course and run over his place of 89 acres, washing many acres into ditches and gullies.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 1 June 1905, page 5
Peter Hess, J J Yelton, and George Shafer, recently appointed by Judge Hissem, of the Campbell County Court, to appraise land wanted under condemnation proceedings by the Grants Lick Turnpike Company, yesterday reported that the owner of the land, J W Dawson, should receive $80. the land is opposite the second tollgate.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 14 February 1906, page 5
Judge Berry will convene the February term of the Campbell Circuit Court at Alexandria next Monday and will try a number of cases. The criminal cases to be heard are two in number, that of the State against William Seals and an indictment against the Grants Lick, Claryville & Butler Turnpike Company. It is charged the company has failed to keep its roads in repair.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 22 February 1906, page 5
Judge Hodge, who owns the controlling interest in the Grants Lick, Claryville & Butler Turnpike, which was fined Monday $1000 by a jury at Alexandria under an indictment alleging failure to keep the pike in repair, was served with a notice in January that the case would come up. It is stated that he knew the service was null and void and therefore paid no attention to it.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 31 August 1906, page 5
By virtue of an execution No 295, of the Campbell Circuit Court directed to me, I or one of my deputies will offer for sale at the Courthouse door at Alexandria Ky. on Mondy, Sept 3, 1906, at 11 am all the right, title and interest may be in same of the defendant, the Claryville, Grants Lick & Butler Turnpike Co. in the following described property to wit:
The Claryville, Grants Lick & Butler Turnpike Road, with and including the tollhouse and about two acres of land, adjoining said pike, on which the tollhouse now stands, all of the right, title and interest that the above named Pike Company may own, in which they are now in possession of and collecting toll at Slop Town, in Campbell co. Ky. 2 1/2 miles north of Grants Lick, adjoining the schoolhouse lot and known as the William Luck gate, on the southwest side of said pike. Said pike is near Phillip's store, at Claryville and running south to the pike bridge crossing Phillip's Creek at Grants Lick and including said bridge, to satisfy a judgement of one thousand dollars and costs.
Terms: Sale will be made on a credit of three months. Purchaser will be required to give bond with approved security. JOHN P NAGEL, Sheriff Campbell co. Ky.
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The attempt to collect a fine of $1000 adjudged against the Claryville, Grants Lick & Butler Turnpike Co. of Campbell co. is to be vigorously fought in the courts, with a damage suit thrown in. Sheriff Nagel, acting under an execution issued by the Campbell Circuit Court, advertised the pike for sale. This morning the Turnpike Company, through the President, John T Hodge, went before Judge Matt Moore and secured a restraining order, stopping the sale.
Following the issuance of the restraining order Attorneys Hodge & Wolff, files suit for $5000 damages against Sheriff Nagel. The petition alleges that Sheriff Nagel acted unlawfully, that Deputy Charles Davis, who served the summons, was not a deputy at the time, and the company never appeared in court, or by attorney, to answer the indictment returned last October by the grand jury.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 1 July 1907, page 2
Master Commissioner Dieterman, of Newport, accompanied the county officials to Alexandria this morning for the purpose of selling at public auction the Claryville, Grants Lick and Butler Turnpike, to satisfy a fine of $1000 against the company for failing to keep the road in repair as ordered by the Campbell Circuit Court.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 25 July 1909, page 10
The Campbell co. Fiscal Court, at a meeting held in Newport today, adopted a resolution to buy the Claryville, Grants Lick and Butler Turnpike. There are four and one half miles of the pike in the lower end of the county. The purchase price was $500 and was sold by Judge Hodge under the provision that it was to be a free turnpike and kept in repair by the county.