Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad v. Hopson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. This is an appeal from the verdict of a jury assessing damages, on a proceeding inaugurated by the appellees for the condemnation of the right of way through their own plantation, under the charter of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg & Memphis Short Line Railroad Co. Acts 1882, § 2, p. 920. The case was previously in the supreme court, on the appeal of the present appellees. 71 Miss., 503. It…
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From the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. This is an appeal from the verdict of a jury assessing damages, on a proceeding inaugurated by the appellees for the condemnation of the right of way through their own plantation, under the charter of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg & Memphis Short Line Railroad Co. Acts 1882, § 2, p. 920. The case was previously in the supreme court, on the appeal of the present appellees. 71 Miss., 503. It was reversed on grounds not affecting the questions involved in the present appeal, and remanded for further proceedings.…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The second section of “An act to incorporate the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg & Memphis Short Line Railroad Co.,” of which company the appellant is the successor, (Acts of 1882, p. 921), is too lengthy to be conveniently set out in full in this opinion, but, in substance, it authorizes the raib road company to acquire, in any of the methods therein mentioned, any land necessary and proper for the construction and *777working of the road, not exceeding fifty feet in width on each side of the line of the railroad, and also lands necessary and proper for turnouts, side tracks, station houses,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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