McReynolds v. Burlington & Ohio River Railway Co.

This was a petition filed by the Burlington and Ohio Biver Bailway Company, in the county court of Macoupin county, for the purpose of condemning, for the right of way of its railway, two certain strips of land. The defendants in the petition were the owners of two different farms, lying each in a compact body, and consisting, one of 256 acres, and the other of 420 acres. The petition sought to condemn a strip of land through the smaller body, ninety feet wide, containing acres, and one through the other, sixty-six feet wide, containing 9 acres and a fraction. A cross-petition was filed by…