Douglass v. Byrnes

HAWLEY, District Judge.

Petitioners move the court to set aside the report (there is a majority and minority report) of the commissioners herein, upon the ground, among others, of irregularity in the proceedings of Commissioner O. E. Mack, who was selected by defendants, and appointed by the court, as a “disinterested person,” to ascertain and assess the compensation to be paid defendants by.petitioners for-the right of way condemned for the purpose of constructing a tunnel under the provisions of the “Act to encourage the mining, milling, smelting or other reduction of ores in the state of…