Legal Opinion
East Tennessee & W. N. C. R. v. Gouge
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 26, 1947PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
This is a suit by Gouge and wife against the railroad company for land taken and damages to land not taken, including a spring thereon, by the railroad in widening their right of way or straightening out a curve in their road bed.
The matter was submitted to a jury who returned a verdict of $1,200 in favor of Gouge and wife. On a motion for a new trial this verdict was reduced to $600. It is from this judgment that the railroad appeals.
As seen from the plaintiff’s viewpoint the railroad, in straightening a curve in their tracks, took a strip of land 38 feet wide by 200 feet long or about 1/7…
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