Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railway Co. v. Woodyard

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Edgar county dismissing a petition filed in that court by the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway Company by which it sought to condemn certain lands for the purpose of building a short line of railroad. This short line, approximately two miles in length, if built, would connect at each end with the present line of appellant, and the purpose of appellant is, by building this proposed line to straighten its roadway and provide for a road-bed with a more satisfactory grade than that, which exists in the portion of the roadbed which…