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" ... the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the land before and after the cutting or destruction complained of. "
The Southwestern Reporter - Page 124
1892
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 22; Volume 129

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1909 - 952 pages
...adjoins, and from cinders, soot, and smoke oast on it from the trains, the court should not instruct that the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the property just before and just after the road was constructed!; but should state it as any difference...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 270

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1916 - 720 pages
...and after the improvement." So in Beidler v. Sanitary District of Chicago, 211 111. 628, it was said that the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the property before the improvement was constructed and the value of the property after the improvement...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 252

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1912 - 712 pages
...severance from the freehold, so as to secure compensation for damage done to his land because of it, then the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the land before and after the injury." (Dwight v. EC &- NRR Co. 132 NY 199.) "If the thing destroyed, although...
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Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ..., Volume 4

1878 - 642 pages
...only can be allowed in this case. Answer. We cannot answer this proposition in the affirmative. But we instruct the jury that the measure of damages is the difference in the market value of the property of the plaintiff as a farm and ore bank immediately before the diversion...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 35

Isaac Grant Thompson - 1881 - 896 pages
...right they could refuse goods tendered for transportation so long as they claim to be common carriers. The measure of damages is the difference in the value of the articles (which should have been forwarded) at the time and place when and where they ought to have...
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A Manual of the Law Applicable to Corporations Generally: Including Also ...

Charles Theodore Boone - 1881 - 626 pages
...by fraudulent means and representations, to purchase stock which the defendant knew to be worthless, the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the stock as the condition of the company issuing it really was, and its value as the purchaser was fraudulently...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 760 pages
...expenditure. This is substantially the law as given by the court in this case. The defendant requested the court to instruct the jury that the measure of damages is the present value of that sum which, at 8 per cent per annum, would yield annually a sum equivalent to...
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Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ..., Volume 14

1884 - 628 pages
...no set-off or recoupment ; but none in Pennsylvania. Where a case arises of permanent injury, where the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the land as affected by the nuisance, and what it would be worth if unaffected, in some sense it may be that...
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A Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts

Sir Edward Fry - 1884 - 868 pages
...Williamson. 37 Mo., ai>8. In a case where the vendor has 'refused, or put it out of his power to make title, the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the estate at the time the agreement ought to have been completed, and what was to have been paid, if that...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 148

1915 - 1200 pages
...exceeding the value of the entire property; but if for any reason the buildings cannot be replaced, the measure of damages is the difference in the value of the entire property before and after the removal or destruction of the buildings. Enid & Anadarko Ry. Co....
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