Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Co. v. Douglass & Wife

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This was a condemnation proceeding. The witnesses offered by appellees to establish their claim for damages, although acquainted with the land sought to be condemned and how the railroad crossed it, all admitted their ignorance of its market value, but stated that if they wanted to buy the land they would not give as much for it after the construction of the railroad upon it as before. They were nevertheless permitted, over the objections of appellant, to state that the running of the railroad across the land and the construction of _the siding thereon had…