Railroad Co. v. Iron-Works

Johnson, President :

This is a condemnation proceeding. The plaintiff is a domestic corporation, incorporated by chapter 54 of the Acts of the Extra Session of the Legislature of 1868 under the name of the “ Pan Handle Railroad Company,” “ for the purpose of constructing a railroad from Holliday’s Cove in Brooke county to the town of Wellsburg and thence to the city of Wheeling.” By the second section it was declared that said company should “be subject to all the provisions and entitled to all the benefits now conferred by law upon internal improvement companies, * * * and especially to the…