Barron's Use v. United Railway Co.

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

In 1926 plaintiff filed four petitions for viewers to a'ssess compensation for damage to four tracts of land in Upper and Lower Turkeyfoot Townships, Somerset County, over which appellant in 1911 had constructed and thereafter operated a railroad. She obtained awards, which were appealed to the Common Pleas. The eases were put at issue by statements of claim and affidavits of defense. They were tried together and, from the judgment's on verdicts for plaintiff, these appeals were taken and presented in one argument.

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