1Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad Company v. Bratton
Decision Date | 13 December 1909 |
Parties | 1MISSOURI & NORTH ARKANSAS RAILROAD COMPANY v. BRATTON |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Van Buren Circuit Court; Brice B. Hudgins, Judge affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
W. B Smith, J. Merrick Moore and H. M. Trieber, for appellant.
Speculative testimony of probable damage tends to divert the mind of the jury from the real damage. 23 Wend. 434. The elements entering into the estimate of damages for a right of way must not be of a remote or speculative character. 39 Ark. 167; 16 Barb. 196; Id. 100; 13 Barb. 169; 53 Barb. 457; 35 N.H. 134; 10 Cush. 385; 12 Cush. 605; 27 Pa.St. 99; 33 Id. 57; 34 Ia. 353; 128 N.Y. 465; 6 Wis. 636. It is not competent for a witness to draw a conclusion of fact from the evidence in the case. 185 Mo. 239; 191 Mo. 347; 57 Mich 512; 208 Ill. 608; 13 N.D. 432; 181 N.Y. 33. Prospective or speculative damages do not constitute an element to be paid the owner of land by a railroad condemning it for a right of way. 41 Ark. 431; 54 Ark. 540; 34 Ia. 458.
William Gilmore and Rose, Hemingway, Cantrell & Loughborough, for appellee.
Where a railroad is so constructed as to cause land to overflow, the owner may recover for the injury. 45 Ark. 253; 44 Ark. 360; 54 Ark. 140; 62 Ark. 360; 71 Ark. 189; 72 Ark. 127.
This was an action brought by the owner of property entered upon and appropriated by the appellant for a right of way, for damages for such appropriation.
The amended complaint, filed August 12, 1907, is as follows:
The action came on for trial in the Van Buren Circuit Court, and Ambrose Bratton, the plaintiff, testified in his own behalf that the defendant constructed its railway across his land and appropriated for its right-of-way more than five acres of land, which was worth one hundred dollars an acre; and built it through a field on the land, consisting of fifty acres, and so divided the field as to leave it in an inconvenient shape to cultivate, and thereby impaired its value in the sum of $ 650, and made it inconvenient and difficult to cross the railroad from one part of the field to the other, and thereby damaged him in the sum of $ 150, and constructed its railroad track within one hundred feet of his barn, and a little further from his residence, and brought them within range of sparks and cinders escaping from passing engines, and endangered stock on his premises, and by such proximity impaired the value of his farm in the sum of two hundred dollars. (For the purpose of explanation we say here that the land in question is on Little Red River, and that is the river referred to in the testimony of plaintiff.)
Plaintiff further testified, in part, in response to interrogations, as follows:
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