v.
Wilson
Lead Opinion
The appellant brought this proceeding to condemn, for the purpose of a railroad right of way, yards, switches, yard tracks and storage tracks, certain real estate owned by appellees at Auburn Junction, Dekalb county. Appraisers appointed by the court reported, awarding the appellees damages in the sum of $75. To this award the appellees filed exceptions. A jury returned a verdict, assessing the damages of the appellees at $475.
Appellant insists that the court erred in overruling (1) its motion for a venire de novo; (2) its motion for judgment for $150 in favor of appellees; (3) its motion for a new trial.
The appraisers valued at $75 appellees’ real estate which was appropriated, and assessed their damages, on account of such appropriation, in said sum. There were no improvements upon said real estate, and no damages were assessed to the remainder of the real estate owned by appellees. All of said real estate owned by appellees was subject to a mortgage thereon, and the same was owned by appellees as tenants in common.
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The fifth and last clause, after a provision relating to the ease of land sought to be taken by a municipal corporation, proceeds as follows: “In estimating the damages specified in the foregoing first, second, third and fourth clauses, no deduction shall be made for any benefits that may result from such improvement. For the purpose of assessing compensation and damages, the right thereto shall be deemed to have accrued at the date of the service of the notice provided in section three, and its actual value, at that date, shall be the measure of compensation for all property to be actually taken, and the basis of damages to property not actually taken but injuriously affected, except as to damages stated in the fourth clause hereof.”
By section eight of said act (§936 Burns 1908) it is provided: “Any party to such action aggrieved by the assessment of benefits or damages, may file written exceptions thereto in the office of the clerk of such court in vacation, or in open court if in session, within ten days after the filing of such report, and the cause shall further proceed to issue, trial and judgment as in civil actions; the court may make such further orders, and render such findings and judgments as may seem just. ’ ’
[*217] No issues except such as were presented by the exceptions filed appear to have been tried, and it is contended, in effect, that the damages contemplated by the fourth clause of §934, supra, could not properly be submitted to trial, and found, as they were by the jury, under the exceptions tried. We are not prepared to accede to this view, but we are of the opinion that upon the trial, under such exceptions as those presented by the appellees, especially that the damages were too low, it was proper to investigate the question of damages as provided by any and all of the clauses of §934, supra, and not merely the damages specified in the second, third and fourth items of said exceptions. Aside from these special items, the question as to the amount of all the allowable damages was sufficiently before the court for examination de novo, and for the rendition of such findings and judgment as upon the evidence might “seem just.” Louisville, etc., R. Co. v. Dryden (1872), 39 Ind. 393; Lake Erie, etc., R. Co. v. Kinsey (1882), 87 Ind. 514, 518; Indiana, etc., R. Co. v. Allen (1888), 113 Ind. 308, 311, 3 Am. St. 650; Midland R. Co. v. Smith (1890), 125 Ind. 509.
Judgment affirmed.
Rehearing
On Petition for Rehearing.
As to the questions considered in our original opinion, we find no reason to change our former conclusion. The petition for a rehearing is overruled.