Caretta Railway Co. v. Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, McDowell County. Action by the Caretta Railway Company against the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company and others. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff brings error.
1Dissent
BRAhuou, Judge,
(dissenting.)
From the evidence it appears The Caretta Railway Company was incorporated by this state to construct a railroad from the mouth of Barranshe creek to the Poplar Fork of Barranshe creek, a distance of only two miles; that the road, for at least half its length, runs through land of the Yirginia Pocahontas Coal Company, a corporation; that the said coal company there owns a body of 15,000 acres of coal and timber land; that the railroad has one terminus on the Iaeger and Southern Railway, known as the Dry Fork Branch of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and the other…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Fallsburg, &c. Co. v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Virginia · 1903
- F. R. B. Cemetery Ass'n v. ReddWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1889
- State v. KoontzWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1888