Montmorency Gravel Road Co. v. Stockton

The appellant is a corporation organized under the act of May 12th, 1852, on the subject of plank, macadamized, and gravel roads, 1 G. & H. 474, and this was a proceeding commenced before a justice of the peace under the seventh section, to condemn and appropriate land of the appellee for a right of way for the road of the company. Damages were assessed in favor of the appellee before the justice of the peace, and the company on the same day, that is, the 8th of July, 1869, appealed to the circuit court, having filed the necessary appeal bond. The certificate to the transcript of the justice…