Tacoma Eastern Railroad v. Smithgall

This proceeding was instituted by the Tacoma Eastern Railroad Company to condemn and appropriate a right of way 100 feet in width through certain lands owned by the defendants, for railroad purposes. The jury returned a general verdict in favor of the defendants in the sum of $1,822.66, accompanied by the following special findings :

*446“First, What do you find to be the damage to the land in question, by reason of the taking of that part thereof by these proceedings in the ordinary natural state, irrespective of the proposed reservoir and the flow of water and granite quarry thereon located?

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