Moody v. Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railroad

The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad Company, through Ambler and others, its agents and contractors, without the consent of the plaintiff, Mrs. Moody, and without previous condemnation of her land, had not only located their railroad over her land, but had entered upon it and were in the act of appropriating it to the construction of its road by felling trees, digging excavations and throwing up embankments. The court, upon the bill of plaintiffs setting up these facts, plaintiffs alleging also that they did not believe said corporation would have property that could be reached by a…