Pierce v. Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Apeeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BeldEN, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment awarding the respondent $6,793.58 as his damages for the condemnation for railroad purposes of a strip of land 150 feet wide across the corner of his farm. The farm embraces about eighty acres, lying along a public highway, and is from one fourth to one half a mile from the limits of the city of Racine.
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Apeeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BeldEN, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment awarding the respondent $6,793.58 as his damages for the condemnation for railroad purposes of a strip of land 150 feet wide across the corner of his farm. The farm embraces about eighty acres, lying along a public highway, and is from one fourth to one half a mile from the limits of the city of Racine. Asylum avenue, the public highway to the east of the land, runs from the city in a southwesterly direction and makes a sharp angle with the northern boundary of the…
1Opinion of the Court
ñiKBECKnR, T.
It is contended that evidence showing that the defendant railroad is connected and has trafile ar*555rangements with commercial railroads, and evidence of tbe probable location of its freight yards and tlieir proximity to such other railroads, and what under its charter were its, powers and privileges as to its right to use motive power other than electric in its use of the strip of land sought to' be condemned, was erroneously received and submitted to the jury. All of this evidence was manifestly admitted to show what use the defendant might make of this strip. The nature of the…
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- Hutchinson v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
- Stolze v. Manitowoc Terminal Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
- Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1879
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