Mattheis v. Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad

Ragan, C.

In June, 1887, the county judge of Douglas county, at the request of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Yalley Railroad Company, hereinafter called the railroad company, which desired to obtain a right of Avay across the land of Claus Mattheis, selected six disinterested freeholders of said county, caused them to be summoned by the sheriff thereof, and they made an assessment of the amount of damages which Mattheis would sustain by reason of the appropriation of a part of his land for right of way by the railroad company and duly reported their assessment to such county judge, Avho…