New-Jersey Rail Road & Transportation Co. v. Suydam
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On Certiorari to the Clerk’of Middlesex county, to return the -proceedings of Commissioners on assessing damages to landholders, &c.
1Opinion of the CourtHornblower, C. J.
By the 6th section of the act incorporating the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, it is provided, that in case of disagreement, as to price, between the Company and the landholder, it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of this Court, upon the application of either party, to appoint three Commissioners to determine “the compensation and damages, which the owner of the real estate or land, lias sustained, by reason of the occupancy thereof by the said corporation.”
Such is the awkward language of the statute; the meaning of which, I apprehend to be, that the Commissioners…
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