Pierce v. Cherry Valley Farms, Inc.

The controlling facts as contained in the bill of exceptions, stated briefly, are as follows:

In 1902 Martin E. Cole was the owner in fee simple of a 150-acre farm in Westfield township, Medina county, subsequently purchased by the plaintiffs. During the year 1902, by appropriation proceedings instituted in the Probate Court of Medina county, The Cleveland & Southern Railway Company acquired for a substantial sum the 60-foot strip of land in question “for the purpose of building, constructing and erecting thereon its roadbed, tracks, switches, poles and' electrical equipment and of maintaining…