Kiernan v. Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Co.

This was a petition filed by the appellee, the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Bailway Company, in the county court of Knox county, on May 21, 1887, for the condemnation of a strip, of land through the farm of appellant, for appellee’s right of way. Appellant’s farm consists of 132 acres, situated about three miles west of Galesburg, on adjoining lands, in sections 19 and 20. The right of way takes 10t5q6q- acres of land, and cuts the farm in such shape that a triangle of over 12 acres is left on the north side of the right of way on section 19, and a triangle of 9 acres north of the right…