State Ex Rel. Wells v. City of Dunbar

Given, Judge:

Relators, E. M. Wells and Lucy I. Wells, owners in fee simple of Lot K of the Houston Subdivision, in the City of South Charleston, instituted an original proceeding in mandamus in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, praying that a peremptory writ be awarded requiring defendants, The City of Dunbar and D. L. Salisbury, Mayor, to prosecute an action in eminent domain for the purpose of ascertaining just compensation owing relators for the taking and damaging of Lot K, in the construction and maintenance of a toll bridge by the City of Dunbar, across the Kanawha River, from Dunbar…