Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. State ex rel. State Board of Transportation

On the 9th day of February, 1893, the state board of transportation, on the complaint of one Byram Blair, made and entered of record an order requiring the plaintiff in error, hereafter called the railroad company, to furnish him, the said Blair, the site for the erection of a grain elevator upon its right of way and sidetracks in the city of Broken Bow. On the 5th day of July, 1893, said board instituted this proceeding in the district court of Ouster county for the purpose of enforcing the order aforesaid by means of a writ of mandamus against the respondent railroad company. A trial was…