Kansas City, Emporia & Southern Railroad v. Merrill
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error .from, Greenwood District Court. At the November Term, 1880, of the district court, Merrill, as plaintiff, had judgment against the defendant Railroad Company, which brings the case here. The nature of the action, and the facts, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
HortoN, C. J.:
The plaintiff in error commenced proceedings to condemn the right of way through the land of the defendant in error, who was the owner of the northwest quarter of section seventeen, township twenty-three, range eleven, with the quarter-section lying immediately east thereof, and the whole section lying north, all in Greenwood county, and embracing 960 acres. All of this was used for the purposes of a stock ranch. The railroad ran nearly diagonally through the northwest quarter of section seventeen, but did not touch the adjoining lands.…
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