Van Husen v. Omaha Bridge & Terminal Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. N. W. Macy, Judge. Condemnation proceedings to assess the amount-of damages to which plaintiffs are entitled by reason of tbe occupancy of a part of their lands by the defendant railway company. From the award made by tbe district court, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Sometime in the fall of the year 1889 the Union Pacific Railway Company commenced the construction of the roadbed in question. At that time the ownership of the land on which the railway was constructed, together with other lands in what is known as the “East Omaha Bottom,” was in dispute. The Union Pacific Company, the East Omaha Land Company, and the Nebraska Perry Company, and Anthony W. Street, its trustee, claimed ownership of portions of the land lying in that bottom; the boundaries of the respective tracks being unknown, and in dispute. Soon after the Union Pacific Company commenced…
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