Morgan v. Chicago & Northeastern Railroad

Campbell, J:

This is a certiorari to review proceedings condemning lands for a railway. The proceedings were had in the probate court for Ingham county, under a petition presented on '.the 8th day of November, 1876. The commissioners met .and acted on the 11th of November, no one being present representing the plaintiff, and awarded him one dollar for a strip of land one hundred feet wide, extending across a quarter section of land. The affidavit for certiorari shows facts which, if true, indicate that the proceedings were intentionally concealed from the resident agent of the land •owner.

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