Gurdon & Fort Smith Railroad v. Vaught
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Howard Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge;
1Opinion of the CourtFrauenthar, J.
This was an action instituted by the plain-' tiffs below against the Gurdon & Fort Smith Railroad Company to recover damages for the appropriation by it of plaintiff’s land for a right-of-way upon which it built its railroad. The plaintiffs alleged that they were the owners of eighty acres of land in Montgomery County through which ran a narrow pass in the mountains, known as Caddo Gap, which was especially valuable for railroad purposes. On either side of this gap, for a great distance to the east and' west, were high and impassable mountain ranges so that it constituted substantially the…
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