Consolidated Traction Co. v. Jordan

Appellant filed its instrument of appropriation in the office of the clerk of the Hendricks Circuit Court, by which it sought to appropriate for its right of way certain lands belonging to appellee. Such proceedings were had that appraisers were appointed and filed their report of damages assessed in favor of appellee. Within the time fixed by statute appellee filed his excep*157tions to the report on account of the inadequacy of the damages assessed. Upon the issues joined by the instrument of appropriation and appellee’s exceptions thereto, the cause was tried before a jury, resulting in a…