McMahon v. Cincinnati & Chicago Short-Line Railroad

This was a proceeding by the appellees against McMahon, under section 15 of the act entitled " An act to provide for the incorporation of Railroad Companies,” approved May 11,1852. 1 R. S., p. 414.

The company having located their road, filed in the clerk’s office of said Court, a notice directed to McMahon, *414representing that a portion of his land necessary for the construction of the road through the same, had been appropriated for that use, and that they would, on the 28th of May, 1853, apply to the judge of the same Court to appoint arbitrators to assess the damage that might be sustained…