Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Jennings
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of, second district, Tallahatchie County. TIon. Samuel C. Cook, Judge. The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, the appellant, was the applicant. in eminent domain proceedings against Epsey Jennings and another, the appellees. Both parties appealed from the judgment of the special eminent domain court to the circuit court.
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Erom the circuit court of, second district, Tallahatchie County. TIon. Samuel C. Cook, Judge. The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, the appellant, was the applicant. in eminent domain proceedings against Epsey Jennings and another, the appellees. Both parties appealed from the judgment of the special eminent domain court to the circuit court. On the trial in the circuit court there was evidence for the landowners to the effect that while the actual value of the land to be expropriated was from $100 to $125 an acre, the consequential damages were very considerable on account of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is no merit in any of the contentions of the appellant, except the one which asserts that the verdict is excessive. The case is one which has troubled us very greatly in arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. One witness, W. IT. Sumner, testifies that there were only seventy-five acres of first-class land in the tract, and about one-third of the balance, as he puts it, was third-class land; and he was a witness for the defendant. The value of the place ranges from $45 to $125 an acre. Several witnesses for the defendant say that the…
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