Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Raymond
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway Company appealed to the district court for Rock county from an award of commission ers appointed in proceedings to condemn land of the respondents for the use of the railway company. A trial was had before Perkins, J., and a jury. The railway company appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
DicKinson, J.1
This appellant is a railway corporation of Iowa, having authority (see Gen. St. 1878, c. 34, § 106) to extend its road into this state, and for that purpose to exercise the power of eminent domain conferred upon like domestic corporations by our general laws. The corporation instituted proceedings by petition for the condemnation, for its right of way, of a strip of land 100 feet wide off the west side of a 20-acre tract owned by the respondents. Upon the trial in the district court upon appeal from the award of commissioners, the land-owner was allowed to testify to the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Drury v. Midland RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Ham v. City of SalemMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- County of Blue Earth v. St. Paul & Sioux City RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1881
- Le Clair v. First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1873
- Bryan v. FarnsworthSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
3Cited by6 opinions
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- State Ex Rel McNutt v. OrcuttIndiana Supreme Court · 1936
- De Penning v. Iowa Power & Light Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1948
- North Arkansas & Western Railway Co. v. ColeSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1902
- Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. MillerOregon Supreme Court · 1956
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