Chesapeake & Hocking Ry Co. v. Snyder

We may say, in the first place, that if the plaintiff has any cause of action the judg,ment is not excessive and would not be disturbed by us on that. account.

There were three different grounds upon which the plaintiff claimed his right to recover. The first was that the land appropriated by the Baltimore and Ohio was abandoned by that company under the general appropriation statutes, and the second ^was that the appropriated land had never, been improved for railroad purposes by the expenditure of any sum of money thereoh, or its use in any way, and that the appropriating company had…