Case ID: kan_41/html/0070-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Kansas City & Southwestern Railroad Company v. W. J. Orr.
    Action to recover damages for a railroad right-of-way. Judgment for $1,600 for the plaintiff Orr, at the October term, 1886, of the district court of Cowley county. The defendant Railroad Company brings the case here.
    
      Jos. O’Hare, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Peehham &. Henderson, for defendant in error.
   Per Curiam:

The judgment in this case must be affirmed. First: As to the competency of opinion evidence given by farmers with respect to the value of land in their neighborhood, see as follows: K. C. & S. W. Rld. Co. v. Ehret, ante, p. 22; same case, 20 Pac. Rep. 538, and authorities there cited. K. C. & S. W. Rld. Co. v. Baird, just decided; Lewis on Eminent Domain, §§ 435, 437, and cases there cited.

Second: With respect to the special interrogatories asked to be submitted, no error was committed and no exception taken.

Third: The instruction given with reference to the measure of damages, was correct. (L. & W. Rld. Co. v. Ross, 40 Kas. 598; same case, 20 Pac. Rep. 197.)

Fourth: The instruction given with respect to farm-crossings was correct. The K. C. & S. W. Rld. Co. v. Baird, ante; K. C. & S. W. Rld. Co. v. Ehret, ante, p. 22.

The judgment of the court below will be affirmed.