Gauley & Eastern Railway Co. v. Conley
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error from Circuit Court, Fayette County. Condemnation proceeding by the Gauley & Eastern Railway Company against C. A. Conley and others. Verdict and judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGEE, JUDGE :
The verdict and judgment in this condemnation proceeding by a railway company to take, for its purposes, a portion of each of two small lots on one of which there was a horse and a mule barn and on the other á department store building, both in use at the time, are for $14,000.00, and the applicant complains of them.
The dimensions of the barn lot were, substantially, forty by eighty feet, and, of the other lot forty by fifty-four feet. The railroad right of way line cut into both lots to a depth of about thirty feet and ran through the building on each. Each of the…
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