In Re Condemnation of Lands for a New State House

Matteson, C. J.(1) Our opinion is that the nonsuit was properly granted. The case shows that at the time of the commencement of the proceedings, in May, 1893, the claimant’s testator, Philip A. Doyle, held a portion -of the land proposed to be taken as a tenant from year to year; that his current occupation year began on July 1, 1892, and expired on July 1, 1893; that the land was condemned July 9, 1893, and that the claimant’s testator continued in the occupation of it undisturbed, not only till the expiration of his occupation year, but for several months after the condemnation. The…