Forbes v. Delashmutt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeals from Mills Circuit and, District Courts. These cases are submitted together as growing out of the same facts, although involving somewhat different questions of law. The plaintiff is the owner of certain land in Mills county, across which the defendant the Council Bluffs & St. Louis Railway Company has located its line of railroad, and its lessee, the defendant the Wabash; St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company is operating the same.
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Appeals from Mills Circuit and, District Courts. These cases are submitted together as growing out of the same facts, although involving somewhat different questions of law. The plaintiff is the owner of certain land in Mills county, across which the defendant the Council Bluffs & St. Louis Railway Company has located its line of railroad, and its lessee, the defendant the Wabash; St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company is operating the same. The right of way for the road was-obtained in April, 1879. Afterwards, in September of that year, the proprietor of the Council Bluffs & St. Louis Railway…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J
1. xioads: condemnation proceedings: delense of er“onc!iaio"rari. I. We will first consider the question in the action brought for a writ of certiorari against the members of the sheriff’s jury, or commissioners, summoned to assess the damages. In that action ° the court overruled a demurrer to the defendants’ ' answer. Whether the court thought that the plea of estoppel was good, or that the assessment, so far as the defendant commissioners were concerned, was regular and not liable to be set aside upon a writ of certiorari, does not appear. In our opinion, whatever ground of…
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