Renwick v. D. & N. W. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. This proceeding was commenced by tbe appellant filing with the sheriff of Scott county a petition for the appointment of. freeholders to assess the damages caused by the location arid construction of appellant’s railway along the bank of the Mississippi river, between high and low water mark, in front of certain premises occupied by the appellees as lessees.
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Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. This proceeding was commenced by tbe appellant filing with the sheriff of Scott county a petition for the appointment of. freeholders to assess the damages caused by the location arid construction of appellant’s railway along the bank of the Mississippi river, between high and low water mark, in front of certain premises occupied by the appellees as lessees. From the assessment by the sheriff’s jury both parties appealed to the circuit court, where there was a jury trial and judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendant alone appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
The plaintiffs are the lessees of a certain irregular parcel of land within the corporate limits of the city of Davenport, having a river front of about one thousand three hundred feet, and extending back about nine hundred feet, on which is situate a steam saw-mill, planing-mill, lumber-yard, houses, etc. The said premises are used exclusively for the manufacturing and selling of lumber; or, rather, the plaintiffs so claim. Logs are obtained by being floated down the river and landed in front of, or convenient to, the saw-mill. The plaintiffs, or those under whom they claim, have gradually…
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