Baltimore, Pittsburgh & Chicago Railroad v. Lansing

This was a proceeding under the fifteenth section of the railroad law, 1 Gr. & H. 509, by the appellant, to condemn land of the appellee for its track. Appraisers were appointed by the judge of the Porter Circuit Court, as provided by law, who appraised the damages by reason of the appropriation of the right of way of the said railroad to the width of one hundred feet across the appellee’s farm, at the sum of seven hundred dollars. Prom this appraisement the appellee appealed to the circuit court, where the question of damages was tried by a jury, who returned a verdict for the appellee for…