Strang v. Beloit & Madison Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Roch County, from an order of the circuit court for that county, quashing the report of commissioners to appraise the damages sustained by Strang & Thompson, by reason of the construction of the railroad of the Beloit & Madison railroad company across their lands.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Roch County, from an order of the circuit court for that county, quashing the report of commissioners to appraise the damages sustained by Strang & Thompson, by reason of the construction of the railroad of the Beloit & Madison railroad company across their lands. On the 27th day of July, 1862, the circuit judge of the first circuit, on the application of Strang & Thompson, under chap. 45, Laws 1852, (the charter of said company) appointed Jacob West, Jonathan Cory and (xabriel Crist, commissioners to appraise the damages sustained by them by reason of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
The objection taken by the compa] ny, and seriously urged here, that two of the commissioners appointed to assess damages for the lands taken were disqualified because they were stockholders in the company, is a little extraordinary. We can very well understand why the apjoel-lants should object to these persons, because for the most obvious reasons, they were interested in reducing the damages as low as possible; but why the company should object we *639cannot imagine; for surely the company ought to be satisfied with an appraisement made by its stockholders. It is said that…
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