Illinois Central Railroad v. LeBlanc
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Pike county. In 1886 the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the lessee, and the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad Company, the lessor, jointly condemned about sixteen acres of land in section 11, adjacent to their main track near Chattawa, Pike county, and acquired the same in an eminent domain proceeding, from which to obtain gravel for the purpose of ballasting the roadbed, and established gravel pits thereon.
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From the circuit court of Pike county. In 1886 the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the lessee, and the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad Company, the lessor, jointly condemned about sixteen acres of land in section 11, adjacent to their main track near Chattawa, Pike county, and acquired the same in an eminent domain proceeding, from which to obtain gravel for the purpose of ballasting the roadbed, and established gravel pits thereon. The land, and that in section 14, just south of it, was assessed by legal subdivisions, including the right of way in both sections, on the general…
1Opinion of the Court
Willing, Sp. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action of ejectment by the appellee to recover of appellant a tract of about six acres of land, situated in the east ■J of the northwest J of section 14, township 1, range 7 east, in the county of Pike. It was shown on the trial that about one-half of a mile of appellant’s track was upon the land. The plaintiff in the lower court introduced in evidence, in support of his right to recover, (1) a tax collector’s deed of the locus in quo executed to L. C. and M. Lenoir, March 2, 1891, by virtue of a sale of the land for the taxes of…
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