Guinn v. Iowa & St. Louis R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Appanoose District Court.— Hon. M. A. Roberts, Judge. Such proceedings were had as that ou the 16th day of April, 1902, a sheriff’s jury assessed, the damages for appropriating a right of way by the Iowa & St, Louis Railroad Company across forty acres of Andrew Guinn’s farm at $300. An appeal to the district court was taken by the landowner, and upon trial the damages were increased to $1,584. The company appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
*3031. Practice: voluntary anee; costs. *302Before trial the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railway Company filed a petition of intervention, alleging that, since the condemnation proceedings were begun and the appeal taken, it had purchased the right of way and *303property interest's of the defendant and was the real party in interest, and prayed that judgment be entered against the land-owner for costs. It then moved for a continuance, and, this being denied, withdrew its petition, to which plaintiff objected. The court overruled the objection, but seems to have held that the withdrawal did not withdraw…
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