Port Huron & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Callanan

The bill in this case was filed to sot aside an award of compensation for lands over which complainant laid its track. Defendant owned a parcel of land *25at the corner of a street running east and west, in the plat of Fort Gratiot, which lies above Port Huron, and of another street running north and south, which is the one used for the railway. Proceedings had been taken to condemn the land, which were set aside as illegal, and other litigation had arisen and was pending. On the eighteenth day of May, 1886, a jury had been impaneled in an action for damages brought by defendant against…