Lee v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in a condemnation case where plaintiff was dissatisfied with the award made for the appropriation of some of his farming lands for railway purposes.

It appears that in 1929 plaintiff owned two tracts of land of 400 acres each in Morris county. Two or three sets of improvements were on them and the tilled lands were occupied by tenants. Plaintiff used the pasture lands himself. The two tracts cornered with each other, but they could conveniently be operated together, and through an amicable arrangement with…