Union Ry. Co. v. Standard Wheel Co.

SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.

The Union Railway Company, a Tennessee corporation, filed a petition in the circuit court of Shelby county in that state against the Standard Wheel Company, a corporation of Indiana, holding a lease of a certain tract of land on Raleigh street in the city of Memphis, for the condemnation of a portion of the leased land for the purposes of its railway. The wheel company removed the cause into the Circuit Court of the United States and there contested the proceeding. A jury of view was summoned, who reported their assessment of damages of the defendant at the sum of…