Coate v. Memphis Railroad Terminal Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari from the Court of Civil Appeals. — J. P. Young, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Beard
This proceeding wai instituted by the defendant in error, a public service corporation of Memphis, to condemn certain real property of the plaintiff in error, *526essential to its use. In tlie trial in the circuit court there was offered by the plaintiff in error testimony tending to show what the defendant in error had paid the owners for other lots lying in the neighborhood of that, the value of which is here in controversy. This testimony was excluded from the jury by the trial judge, and his action in this regard was held to be free from error by the court of civil appeals. The case is now…
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- Streyer v. Georgia Southern & Florida RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892
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