Plank-Road Co. v. Ramage

In the case of the same Plank-Road Company v. Ramage, the opinion of the Court, delivered by Black, C. J., was as follows:

It has been settled in the Plank-Road Company v. Thomas, that a party injured by the location of a plank-road, has a right, under the general act and its supplements, to recover damages *96for land taken as well as improvements destroyed. Timber is part of the land. The other points are not greater or more numerous than might be raised in any ease, however justly decided, in which ingenious counsel determine to take as many exceptions as possible.

The necessity of making new…