Montg. So. Railway Co. v. Sayre

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the lion. Jas. E. Cobb. These two cases, involving substantially the same questions, were argued and submitted together. Each was a statutory-proceeding, instituted by the Montgomery Southern Railway Company, a domestic corporation organized under the general law (Code, §§ 1821-41), seeking to condemn lands for the right of way of its road ; the lands in one case belonging to W. D. Sayre, and in the other to A. S. jSayre and M. II. Sayre. In each case, the proceeding was originated by a petition filed by the railroad company, addressed…