Prather v. Chicago Southern Railway Co.

This was a proceeding under the Eminent Domain act, brought by the appellee company against the appellant and other land owners to condemn a right of way for its proposed railroad. A cross-petition was filed by appellant asking that alleged damages to land not taken be assessed and allowed.

The lands of the appellant are situate in sections 9 and 10 in town 22, north, range 11, west of the second principal meridian, in Vermilion county, 200 acres thereof being in section 10 and 122J4 acres being in section 9, and were divided by a public highway on the section line between said sections 9 and…