Coughlen v. Chicago, Iowa & Kansas Railway Co.

Opinion by

Simpson, C.:

This was an appeal to the district court of Cloud county, from an award of commissioners appointed by the judge of the 12th judicial district of the state on the application of the defendant in error, to lay off a route for such railway in Cloud county, and to appraise the value of and assess the damages to land appropriated to its right-of-way, etc. The case was tried at the June term, 1885, by :a jury. During the trial the court ordered that the jury be •.taken, in charge of the sheriff of the county, to the pi’emises in question for the purpose “ of viewing the land…