Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. v. Patton
West Virginia Supreme Court
Supersedeas to judgments of the circuit court of Ka-nawha county, entered on the twenty-fourth of November, 1873, the sixth of December, 1873, and the sixteenth of December, 1873, respectively, in a cause therein pending, in which the Chesapeake’ &' Ohio Railroad was plaintiff, and Robert Patton and others were defendants. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion ■of the court. . Hon. Joseph Smith, Judge of said circuit court, presiding at the trials below.
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge.
Proceedings were instituted in this case in the circuit ■court of Kanawha county, in 1870, by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, under the provisions of chapter forty-two of the Code of West Virginia, to ascertain what would be a just compensation for certain real estate <of Robert Patton, proposed .to be taken for their use. *650The commissioners, who had, theretofore, been appointed, reported on September 14, 1870, that $675 and the construction and keeping in repair, by the Railroad Company, of a certain fence and crossings, ways and cattl.e guards, would be a just…
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