Herrin & Southern Railroad v. Nolte

Appellant located its railroad across two tracts of land constituting part of an improved farm owned by Henry Nolte, one of the appellees, in Williamson county, entering the first tract of 33^ acres on the north side and running south-easterly across it, taking 1.26 acres of that tract, and after crossing another tract, again entering the farm on the west side of a 40-acre tract and running in the same direction across it, taking all of that tract west of a line fifty feet east of and parallel to the center line of the railroad, containing 1.60 acres. A petition was filed in the county court…