Tidewater Railway Co. v. Cowan
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county in a condemnation proceeding. To the judgment awarding damages to the defendant, plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
This writ of error and supersedeas brings under review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county, affirming the report of commissioners assessing damages to the defendants in error by reason of the proposed construction through and upon their property of plaintiff in error’s line of railway, certain yards, chutes, etc.
It appears that the defendants in error own a tract of land— ■spoken of by witnesses as “a magnificent farm,” “one of the best in Southwest Virginia,” “one of the best I have ever seen”—lying in Montgomery county, and extending for five miles along Hew river, on the…
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