Paducah & Memphis Railroad v. Stovall

SNEED, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

The plaintiff appeals in error from a judgment of tbe Circuit Court of Obion County, upon the verdict of a jury assessing tbe damages sustained by tbe defendants in consequence of the location of tbe plaintiff’s road over the defendants’ land.

Tbe defendants owned a tract of 307-J acres in a body, of which 9£ acres were appropriated by tbe plaintiff for its road. Tbe location of the- road was *3•shown by the proof to have been of serious detriment to the defendants’ land, and the verdict, awarding to the defendants the sum of $500 as compensation for…