Butler Bros.-Hoff Co. v. Virginian Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Campbell county. Decree for the defendant. Complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The principle controversy in this case is as to the amount of compensation which the appellant is entitled to receive for making a cut in the construction of the appellee’s line of road, under a, contract entered into between the appellant contractor and the railway company on the 9th of December, 1905, for the construction of about six and one-half miles of the latter’s roadbed. Upon that section of the road there is a cut known as “Terryville Cut.” It is about three thousand feet long and some eighty feet deep at. its summit. There is no material difference between the parties as to the…
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