Smith v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

. Owen, J.

Edward A. Smith and Mary Smith, his wife, owned a farm in close proximity to the city of Racine, consisting of about fifty-six acres. The farm is traversed by the right of way of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company in a northerly and southerly direction. Forty-six acres of the farm are west of this right of way and 9.72 acres are east thereof. The farm buildings are east of the right of way. The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company condemned a 100-foot strip containing 1.76 acres immediately east of the Northwestern right of way. The commissioners appointed to appraise…