Eureka & Trinidad Railroad v. McGrath
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of" Humboldt County refusing to set aside a judgment. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court..
1Opinion of the CourtMcFarland, J.
The plaintiff, a railroad corporation, on the seventeenth day of February, 1885, filed its complaint in the court below, asking a judgment condemning a right of way for its road through and over a lot of land belonging to defendants in the city of Eureka. *50Defendants answered, denying all the averments of the complaint (except ownership of the lot), and claiming one thousand six hundred dollars damages in case of condemnation. The case was tried with a jury, and all the facts necessary to support a judgment for plaintiff were found in its favor, and defendants’ damages were duly assessed at…
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