Whitely v. Mississippi Water Power & Boom Co.

These proceedings were instituted for the condemnation of certain lands of the plaintiff, appellant, lying in the-county of Crow Wing, found necessary to be appropriated for the-corporate use and purposes of the respondent company. The plaintiff appealed, from the award of the commissioners appointed to appraise damages, to the district court, where a reassessment by the jury resulted in a large increase in the amount awarded. A new trial was granted upon defendant’s application, and against the objection of the plaintiff, on the ground, chiefly, that the verdict was-*524not, in the judgment of…