Arizona Hercules Copper Co. v. Protestant Episcopal Church Corp.

This is a condemnation proceeding whereby the appellant mining company, hereinafter designated plaintiff, sought to condemn a right of way for a steam railway over the property of appellee, hereinafter designated defendant.

The defendant church, in 1914, obtained from the Ray Consolidated Mining Company, the owner thereof, a fifty-year lease of a lot or parcel of land situated between the railroad depot and on the east side of the main highway or street leading therefrom to the town of Bay, and constructed thereon a church building to be used for religious, educational and social purposes.…