Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Nix

This was a proceeding instituted by the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Bailway Company, to condemn a right of way, sixty feet in width, across an eighty acre tract of laqd belonging to TJel E. Nix. A cross-petition was filed by Nix, claiming damages to the portion of said tract of land not taken, and at the trial, the jury found the value of the land actually taken for right of way to be $274, and the damages to the contiguous land not taken to be $1810.25, making a total of $2084.25. A motion by said railway company for a new trial having been denied, judgment was rendered in accordance with…