Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Peoples Street Railway & Improvement Co.

The act of December 10, 1886, conferred upon street railroad companies the “right to condemn and take possession of” land, not exceeding a strip or tract thirty feet in width, for the right of way of such railroads, “on payment to the owner thereof a just compensation, in the same manner as now provided by law for taking private property for railroads and other public uses, in Article II, Chapter 17, Title 2, Part 3 of the Code” of 1876. — Acts 1886-7, p. 122. This act was amended by the act of February 26, 1889, which provides : ‘ ‘That all street railroad companies * * * * organized and…