Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-24
Legal Hotlees Served on S. G. Simmons
& BIO. and Other OWNERS Of
Property About Front
and Tatnall.
THE GROUND IS WANTED FOR
ELEVATED IMPROVEMENTS
indications Point to an Inter-
esting Legal Fight.
MANY LAWYERS WILL Be IN THE GASES

The Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad 90. has begun
proceedings. looking towards the con-
demnation of the Simmons property
and other properties between Water
and Front streets and Thorn and West.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
properties have been pending for some
time, but satisfactory terms were not
reached. and now the method of pro-
ceeding by condemnation is to be tried.
The company wants the land for use in
connection with its improvements here.
Monday, the railroad gave notice
to some of the parties in interest in
the following form:
ITO Charles Simmons Jesse G
Simmons, Samuel G. Simmons, Helen
8. Chandler, Equitable Guarantee and
Trust Co, trustee under the will Of
Henry Simmons, Victor B. Woolley,
trustee under the will of Jesse Sim
mons, Equitable Guarantee and Trust
Co., trustee under the wills of Jesse
and Bauduy Simmons, Wilmington /;
Mary +. Pussy, 1887 Pine street, Phila-
delphia; Sophia P. Mcdowell, Sads-
bury township, Chester County, Pa. /;
Ethel p. Cunningham, Haverford,
L
Notice is hereby given you that the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Railroad Co, pursuant to and in ac-
cordance with the provisions Of the act
of the General Assembly of the State
Of Delaware, PASSED at Dover, February
9th, 1883 entitled An Act To au-
| thorize the Philadelphia, Wilmington
Il Baltimore Railroad Co. to widen and
| improve its lines Of railroad within
| this State, will On the 25th day Of
| July. a. d. 1902. apply by petition to
| the Hon. William G.. Spruance, the
associate judge residing in New Castle
county, for the appointment of five
| judicious and impartial freeholders,
to view the premises belonging to you,
situate in the city Of Wilmington, and
bounded on the southwest by the land
Of the said the Philadelphia Whining
| ton d Baltimore Railroad Co., between
| Tatnsll and Thorn streets in said city,
and to assess the amount of compeHsa-
| ton to be paid by the said company for
so much of your land as is intended to
be taken and Appropriated by it for the
said purpose provided for in said act
the land so intended to be taken and
appropriated for the purpose aforesaid
having been securely ascertained and
| determined by a survey heretofore
made, as shown by the plot, mar
whereof, together with the description
by metes and bounds, will be annexed
to the said petition and presented there
with to the said judge.
The foregoing is signed by President
a. j. Cassatt and Secretary Lewis
Nelson of the railroad company.
Some of the notices we're put in the
hands Of Sheriff Samuel A. Mechanic
for service yesterday.
In addition to the Simmons property
between Thorn and Tatnall streets, tbs
company seeks to secure the properties
owned by the following between 'ratnal
and West: Jonathan A. Armour
Sohwartzschild & Sulsberger AM
Gustavus F. Swift, the meat packers
and William g. Valentine. who has
-four and grain store. Service on som
Of the nonresident ovne rs has heel
made by mail to their Chicago offices
THAT is all we are after, said
representative Of the railroad company
Tuesdoy morning
The attorneys for the railroad in th
coldsmnation proceedings are Herher
Fl. Ward and Andrew G. Gray. Fo
the owners, Willard Salisbury, Victo
p. Woolley, Lilburne Chandler, WilliaI
8. Hilles and Walter II. Hayes vii
/ be some Of the attorneys. a fight ma
be made against the condemnatio
. proceedings.