Savannah, Augusta & Northern Railway Co v. Williams

1. The writ of error is to the overruling of a motion for new trial. The case was an appeal from the assessors’ award in a proceeding by a railroad company to condemn a right of way. Substantially all of the grounds- of the motion, whether complaining of the admission of evidence, refusal to charge, or exceptions to the charge, present a single proposition. The trial court held that in a condemnation proceeding the. landowner was entitled to recover as consequential damages any depreciated value of the remainder of his land, and that the jury might consider evidence as to smoke, noise, dust,…