Panhandle Traction Co. v. Schenk

Lynch, Judge :

The Panhandle Traction Company, in July, 1911, upon notice, instituted proceedings in the circuit court of Ohio county to condemn certain lands of Albert Schenk and others for its railroad purposes. The court, in lieu of a jury, having heard the evidence introduced at the trial, found in favor of *227the petitioner upon the pleas tendered and filed. Pursuant to the findings, by the same order, it appointed, as required by statute, commissioners to ascertain and report the damages by way of compensation for the lands sought to be appropriated. The commissioners viewed the lands, and…