Phillips v. Watson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Momroe District Gov/rt. In the month of August, 1882, defendant, being in possession as lessee of a tract of land on which he was engaged in operating a coal mine, instituted a proceeding, under the provisions of chapter 34 of the acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly, to have a public way established from a point on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, over and across certain lands belonging to plaintiff, to his coal mine; and he gave notice of his…
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Appeal from Momroe District Gov/rt. In the month of August, 1882, defendant, being in possession as lessee of a tract of land on which he was engaged in operating a coal mine, instituted a proceeding, under the provisions of chapter 34 of the acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly, to have a public way established from a point on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, over and across certain lands belonging to plaintiff, to his coal mine; and he gave notice of his intention to construct and maintain a railway on such way for the purpose of reaching the mines on said tract of Land, and of…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
1. INJUNCTION: not allowed where there is legal remedy: right of way to coal mine. I. Many separate objections are urged by plaintiff against the condemnation proceedings under which defendant claims the right to occupy the ground m question. Eut we think we may properly classify ail these obiections as relating either, 1st, to the mere regularity of the condemnation proceedings, or, 2d, to the right to condemn the ground at all for the purposes intended by defendant. The objections which we think relate merely to the regularity of the proceedings are, that one of the appraisers appointed by…
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