...compensation being first, made or secured.' In article 16, § . 8, it is provided that corporations 'shall make just compensation for property taken,...enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, wnlcn compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, Injury, or destruction.' These clauses...

...the spirit, of the constitutional mandate which requires municipal and other corporations, etc., to "make just compensation for property taken, injured...enlargement of their works, highways or improvements." Article 16, § 8. To hold otherwise would defeat one of the main objects <>f that provision. In its...

...corporations, or individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public tise, for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction...enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements," and it was held that the Act did not apply to proceedings for the opening of township roads. See also...

...the person or corporation exercising the right of eminent domain liable to make "just compensa tion for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works." Property is "tnkeu " by an entry upon and an appropriation of it, &s in the ordinary case of location....

...that, "in all cases of damages assessed against any municipal or' other corporation, or individual or individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use for property taken or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements,...

...compensation being first paid or secured;" and article 16, § 8, of same instrument, further provides that "municipal and other corporations and individuals, invested with the privilege of takingprivateproperty for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or...

...decision of the question would be influenced by article xvi, § 8. of the New Constitution, which provided that " Municipal and other corporations and individuals...shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction." As this section provides compensation solely for injuries inflicted in the future, that...

...the right of way. Article XVI. § 8, of the Constitution declares " municipal and other corparatious and individuals, invested with the privilege of taking...be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction." The ascertainment of the amount of damages sustained, and the entry of judgment therefor,...

...decision of the question would be influenced by Art. XVI, Sect. 8, of the New Constitution which provided that "municipal and other corporations and individuals...compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the continuation or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid...

...addition to section 13, there was embodied in the present Constitution section 242, -which reads, in part, that: "Municipal and other corporations, and individuals...compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by them; which compensation shall be paid before such taking, or paid or secured, at the election of such...