SANBORN, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts). The power of eminent domain — the right to take the property of the citizen for public use — is an attribute of sovereignty. It lies dormant in the state until the right to exercise it is granted by tbe state to some public or quasi public corporation, or until it is exercised by the state itself. It follows that no corporation has the right to exercise (this pow…
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