Drury v. Midland Railroad

A petition to the county commissioners of Norfolk was presented by Cyrus Alger in 1854, to recover damages for land and dots taken by the location of the Midland Railroad Company in 1851. The proceedings upon this petition were continued by the commissioners until 1873, when the sum of $23,233 was awarded by them as damages against the railroad; and the corporation was ordered to give security for the payment of that sum, or for such damage as might be awarded by a jury. In 1875, the administrator of Alger’s estate, being dissatisfied with the amount awarded, filed a petition to the Superior…