Cameron v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R. R.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 15, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1892, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff, Allen Cameron. Appeal from assessment of land damages. Before Martin, J. The facts appear by the opinion of tbe Supreme Court. The buildings were on the smaller tract, between the railroad and the canal.
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Appeal, No. 15, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1892, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff, Allen Cameron. Appeal from assessment of land damages. Before Martin, J. The facts appear by the opinion of tbe Supreme Court. The buildings were on the smaller tract, between the railroad and the canal. When plaintiff was on the stand his counsel proposed to show that although the canal did cut the farm in two, and was occupied for a long period of time across the farm, that notwithstanding this the two parts of the farm were always connected by a bridge and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Stebbett,
In 1891, the defendant company appropriated a strip of land, for railroad purposes, extending northerly across the easterly end of plaintiff’s farm. On appeal from award of viewers, this issue was formed for the purpose of determining the amount of his damages; and on the trial thereof the railroad company contended that he was not entitled to recover for the injury or depreciation of the westerly end of the farm containing eighty-five acres, because it is a separate and distinct tract from that through which irs road passes. The facts, upon which this…
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