Bowman v. Venice & Carondelet Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. M. J. Dale, Judge, presiding. On the 17th day of November, 1880, and during term time, the Venice and Carondelet Railway Company filed in the county court of St. Clair county a petition, under the Eminent Domain act, against John B. Bowman, Frank B. Bowman, and Joseph L. Griswold, for the assessment of damages and right of way over certain lands lying near East St. Louis, in which the defendants, respectively,…
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Appeal from the County Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. M. J. Dale, Judge, presiding. On the 17th day of November, 1880, and during term time, the Venice and Carondelet Railway Company filed in the county court of St. Clair county a petition, under the Eminent Domain act, against John B. Bowman, Frank B. Bowman, and Joseph L. Griswold, for the assessment of damages and right of way over certain lands lying near East St. Louis, in which the defendants, respectively, appeared of record to have an interest. Service was had upon the Bowmans, but not upon Griswold. On demurrer to the petition…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
The points relied on for a reversal are arranged by appellants’ counsel under two heads: 1. Such as relate to the compensation fixed by the jury. 2. Such as are supposed to affect the jurisdiction of the court. We will consider them in the order named.
Petitioner, for the purposes of the trial, admitted the title of a portion of the lands in question to be in John B. Bowman, and also that his grantors had a good title to another portion; and it is claimed by appellants the damages awarded by the jury are too small, and that the smallness of the allowance was'Occasioned by an instruction given…
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