Williamsport, Nessle & Martinsburg Railway Co. v. Standard Lime & Stone Co.

Lynch, Judge:

Upon application to the circuit court of Berkeley county, made in the manner prescribed by statute, for an adjudication of its right to appropriate to public use part of a tract of land owned by the Standard Lime & Stone Company and by it operated as a limestone quarry, the court held the applicant, the Williamsport, Nessle & Martinsburg Railway Company, to be a corporation duly chartered, organized, and empowered to invoke the aid of the statutory provisions in that behalf enacted, and, upon compliance with the due prosecution of the regulations requisite for such procedure^…