Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad v. Dillard

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

These cases were cumulated by consent. They present the same questions, and are proceédings by the Railroad Company to expropriate lands of the defendants alleged tó be necessary for the road bed of the railway. The controversy is only over the value of the expropriated land, and the damage arising therefrom.

The jury found in separate verdicts $2,400 as the value of Dillard’s *1046expropriated land, and $2,800 as damages to his plantation; and $2,521 as the value of the land expropriated from Foster and his co-defendants, and $2,500 as their…