Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway Co. v. Howe

This action was brought by the appellant, as petitioner, under our eminent domain statutes, to *258condemn á right of way for its railroad through the land of appellees. The trial was to a jury. The verdict fixed the value of the property actually taken at $3,089.68, and the damages to the land not taken at $1,000.00, and found that no benefits accrued. The right of way sought is about a mile and a half long and runs diagonally from the northeast corner of respondents’ ranch to a point on the west line, a short distance north of the southwest corner, cutting the ranch in about two equal parts. It…