Hartshorn v. Illinois Valley Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. R. M. Skinner, Judge, presiding. The appellee, the Illinois Valley Railway Company, filed its petition in the circuit court of LaSalle county, against appellants, to condemn a right of way across the north-west quarter and a part of the south-west quarter of section 13, in LaSalle township, in said county, for a proposed line of railway extending from Princeton, in Bureau county, to Joliet, in Will county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. R. M. Skinner, Judge, presiding. The appellee, the Illinois Valley Railway Company, filed its petition in the circuit court of LaSalle county, against appellants, to condemn a right of way across the north-west quarter and a part of the south-west quarter of section 13, in LaSalle township, in said county, for a proposed line of railway extending from Princeton, in Bureau county, to Joliet, in Will county. The origin of this controversy was a condemnation suit between the Illinois Valley Traction Company and appellants, which was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
It is first insisted that the court erred in the admission and exclusion of evidence. The witnesses introduced by appellee to prove the valúe of the land actually taken testified that the best use to which the land, in its then condition, was adapted was for railroad purposes, and gave their value accordingly. It is claimed by appellants that the land was best adapted to manufacturing purposes and was of no value to appellants for railroad purposes, and hence the admission of. this evidence, taken in connection with the twenty-second instruction given on behalf of appellee, was, in effect,…
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