Kelley's Creek & Northwestern Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
1Opinion of the Court · WhitakerWhitaker, Judge
This is a suit for the taking of plaintiffs’ land and for damage to plaintiffs’ coal tipple.
The plaintiff, Kelley’s Creek & Northwestern Railroad Company, is a subsidiary of plaintiff, Kelley’s Creek Colliery Company. At the time this cause of action arose the colliery company operated a coal mine in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and the railroad company was engaged in transporting the coal from the mine to a tipple at the river’s edge where it was dumped in barges and transported down the river.
The railroad company had a lease for fifty years on a four-acre tract near the-mouth of Kelley’s…
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