Chicago & State Line Railway Co. v. Kline

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Lake county fixing the compensation and damages to be paid by appellant to appellees for the right of way of appellant’s railroad across a farm in that county.

The farm contains one hundred and sixty acres and lies north-west of the city of Lake Forest. The defendant Mary Kline is the owner of the farm and the defendant Frank J. Kline is a tenant, who leased the farm about three months before this proceeding was commenced for a term of three years, at $3.75 per acre annual rent, and the farm is used as a dairy farm for keeping and…