Shenandoah Valley Railroad v. Shepherd
West Virginia Supreme Court
Geeen, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case : This was a proceeding in the circuit court of Jefferson county instituted by the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to condemn a strip of land sixty-six feet wide and ninety feet long lying on the bank of the Potomac river at Shepherds-town in said county belonging to Panny Shepherd, Alexander B. Shepherd and R. Davis Shepherd, in which Mrs. Elizabeth S. Shepherd had a doiver interest.
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Geeen, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case : This was a proceeding in the circuit court of Jefferson county instituted by the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to condemn a strip of land sixty-six feet wide and ninety feet long lying on the bank of the Potomac river at Shepherds-town in said county belonging to Panny Shepherd, Alexander B. Shepherd and R. Davis Shepherd, in which Mrs. Elizabeth S. Shepherd had a doiver interest. The proceedings in the case were all regular, and the commissioners appointed by the court reported, that they were of opinion, that $1,587.50 would…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
The instructions'set out in the first bill of exceptions were intended to lay down a rule to govern the jury in its appraisement of the value of the parcel of land ninety feet long by sixty-six feet wide taken by the railroad company from the detendants. Upon this question Judge Field in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Coui’t of the United States in Boom Company v. Paterson, 98 U. S. 408, says : “So many and varied are the circumstances to be taken into account in determining the value of property condemned for public purposes, that it is pei’haps impossible to formulate a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Boom Co. v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Young v. HarrisonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1855
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