McCracken v. Cabel

This was a proceeding instituted in the Daviess Circuit Court by the appellees to condemn land for a right of way for a lateral railroad under section 3987, R. S. 1881, with a view of reaching a coal mine in said county.

The report made by the viewers appointed by the court was excepted to by the appellant John McCracken, over whose -land the proposed railroad ran, and the cause, as to him, was tried in the circuit court by a jury, who returned a verdict in his favor for the sum of $320.45, upon which judgment was rendered. His attorneys of record, Messrs. Baker *267and Padgett, took a lien upon…