Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. v. Bradford
West Virginia Supreme Court
The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The appeal in this case is taken from the order of July 8th, 1872, allowing the Defendants to file the commissioner’s report, and refusing to discontinue the case on Plaintiff’s motion, at its cost; and, from the order of July 15th, 1872, overruling the exceptions to the commissioner’s report, and rendering judgment against the Plaintiff in favor of the infant Defendants, Cora P., Lillian C., and William A. Bradford, by name.
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The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The appeal in this case is taken from the order of July 8th, 1872, allowing the Defendants to file the commissioner’s report, and refusing to discontinue the case on Plaintiff’s motion, at its cost; and, from the order of July 15th, 1872, overruling the exceptions to the commissioner’s report, and rendering judgment against the Plaintiff in favor of the infant Defendants, Cora P., Lillian C., and William A. Bradford, by name. The matters arising upon the first of the above orders appear more particularly in the three bills .of exceptions set out…
1Opinion of the Court
PIaymond, President.
Petitioner, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, on the 25th day of October,"1870, filed its petition in the Circuit Court of Kanawha county, representing that the line of its road had been located by its engineers through and over certain lands therein mentioned and described, giving the boundaries of the land sur*227veyed for its railroad. And in its petition tRe company represented that it proposed to take for the purposes of its road the lands embraced within the boundaries named, under, and by virtue of its acts of incorporation. And the company in its petition…
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