Wichita & Western Railroad v. Kuhn
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Reno District Court. The Wichita & Western Railroad Company, by proper proceedings, condemned a strip of land through the farm of Barbara Kuhn, in Sedgwick county, and the commissioners awarded her $510 as damages, from which award she appealed to the district court. The railroad company procured a change of venue from Sedgwick to Reno county. Trial at the May Term, 1885, and verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,593.28. The Company brings the case here.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Clogston, C.:
*1061. Change of St-triai' ñáíflTea.nÓt1’ *105The plaintiff in error now complains of the judgment of the court below upon appeal from 'the award of damages for the right-of-way appropriated by it. The errors complained of are, first, that the clerk of the district court of Sedgwick county, in transferring the cause, made a transcript of the papers and proceedings, and did not transmit the original papers and files in said cause to the clerk of the district court of Reno county. It is not claimed that the transcript was not a correct copy of the papers and files, but plaintiff…
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