Buckhannon & Northern Railroad v. Great Scott Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Action by the Buckhannon & Northern Railroad Company against the Great Scott Coal & Coke Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MlLDER, PRESIDENT:
In condemnation the petitioning railroad company proposed to take, and, by an agreed order, pronounced on January 6, 1911, was adjudged the right to take, for a right of way, four several strips of land through lots or tracts owned by defendant and occupied together with other lands, with houses, coal tipple, tramway, overhead or aerial way, incline, wharf, and other structures, situated on the Monongahela river, in Monongalia County, all constituting one complete coal plant or operation for mining and marketing coal, such taking to be “subject to the exceptions,…
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