Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Bonafield's Heirs
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Preston County. Condemnation proceedings by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company against A. J. Bonafield’s heirs and others. Both parties objected to the award of commissioners, and, there being judgment for defendants, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, President :
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company instituted this condemnation proceeding to obtain title to two small pieces *290of land in the town of Tunnelton, Preston county, belonging to the heirs of A. J. Bonafield, deceased, for the purpose of increasing its trackage. Upon the filing of its petition, setting forth the purpose for which the land was needed and describing it by metes and bounds, one parcel as containing .51 of an acre and the other .13 of an acre, accompanied with a survey and plat of the land and the adopted changes to be made in the railroad, eomissioners were…
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