Stahl v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 55, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Jefferson Co., Jan. T., 1915, No. 46, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Christiana Stabl v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Company. Appeal from report of viewers. Before Corbet, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 55, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Jefferson Co., Jan. T., 1915, No. 46, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Christiana Stabl v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Company. Appeal from report of viewers. Before Corbet, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial the defendant presented the following points: 1. “There being no evidence offered in this case to show the market value of the property in question at the time of the location and appropriation of the defendant’s right of way over the same, to wit, in 1882, or how the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This was a proceeding to assess the damages on account of land taken for railroad purposes. Barbara *497Shaffer, who was the owner of a farm of 118 acres situated in what is now the town of Sykesville, Jefferson County, died in 1878, intestate, leaving a husband, Henry Shaffer, and five children. In 1882, said surviving husband, while the children were minors and without guardian, gave the predecessor of the defendant a deed for a right-of-way through the farm of the width of 100 feet, on which a railroad track was then constructed and has since been in continuous…
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