White Water Valley Railroad v. McClure

The Whitewater Valley Bailroad Company instituted these proceedings under the provisions of the general railroad law, for the appropriation of the right of way for its road over a tract of land (which is described) owned by McClure,' and for the assessment of the damages therefor. The interest appropriated is the fee simple in the roadway, eighty feet wide and eleven hundred and twenty feet in length, a description of which was filed in the clerk’s office of the Court of Common Pleas. The declaration of appropriation contains a prayer for the appointment of three disinterested freeholders “…