West Virginia Supreme Court October 2, 1885 (Shenandoah Valley Railroad v. Shepherd)

Green, Judge:

The instructions'set out in the first bill of exceptions were intended to lay down a rule to govern the jury in its appraisement of the value of the parcel of land ninety feet long by sixty-six feet wide taken by the railroad company from the detendants. Upon this question Judge Field in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Coui’t of the United States in Boom Company v.