Midland Railway Co. v. Smith

This was an application by Samuel M-Smith against The Midland Railway Company, under sections 906 and 909, R. S. 1881, for the assessment of damages on account of the survey and location of the company’s-line of road over the applicant’s land.

The application, which was filed in vacation of the court, below, averred that the applicant, Smith, was the owner in fee simple of the east half of the northwest quarter of section three (3), in township eighteen (18) north, range three (3). east, in the county of Hamilton, in this State; that said company had surveyed and located its road-bed west…