Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co. v. Burrell

1. Eminent domain: recovery by condemnor of damages assessed and paid. The petition states, in substance, that, in 1912, the plaintiff, a railway corporation, was engaged in building an interurban railway between the cities of Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, when the defendant, being the owner of lands on or near said line, represented to plaintiff that he desired said railway to b.e located south of a certain house, on what is spoken of as the old home place, and south of a certain described highway, and orally offered, as an inducement or consideration for adopting said location, that he would…