Case ID: ky-op_4/html/0446-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lindsay:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Elizabethtown & Paducah Ry. Co. v. Geo. Stickler.
    Eminent Domain — Criterion of Damages.
    K. assessed his land at about $20.00 per acre. The railroad company took three acres and cut off about fifteen from the main land. Held, that a judgment in damages for $464.00 is excessive.
    APPEAL EROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT.
    April 23, 1872.
   Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Lindsay:

It seems to this court that the judgment in this case 'ought not to be allowed to stand. Stickler assessed his tract of land at about twenty dollars per acre. Allowing it to be worth double that amount, the three acres taken by the railway company would be worth $120.00. The fifteen acres separated from the main tract by the road would be worth $600. The judgment is for $464, more than three-fifths of the entire value of the three acres taken, and the fifteen acres cut off by the road, and greatly exceeding the entire value thereof according to the assessment by appellee when acting under oath.

Pindellj for appellants.

Montgomery, for appellee.

Testing the measure of recovery by the rule laid down in the case of the Appellant herein, vs. Helm’s Heirs, this day decided, it is manifest that the damages allowed appellee are unreasonable and excessive.

Wherefore the judgment must be reversed. The cause is remanded for a new trial, upon the principles laid down in the opinion of this court in the above named case.