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V for such additional disability, aswas the result of such injury. In ascer-
taining the damages for impaired ability to earn a livelihood, standard
life and annuitytables are competent evidence to be considered.
`Verdict for the plaintiff for $7,250. ·
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Scuoon-Drsrnrcr No. 2 or L.·u:n Coumw v. SEARL.
' . · (Oircait Odurt, D. Colorado. . January`12, 1889.)
` Eummm: DOMAIN··~COMPENSATION-IMPROVEMENTS. , -
` A receiver’s receipt fora placer claim` was issued in April, and a patent in
. May, for the price of $2.50. The land was worth $3,000. In July, a school
board, acting under advice of counsel, purchased the land from occupants
for $3,500, and erected a school-house on it for $40,000. I On condemnation
` roceedin s by the schoobdistrict, held, that it shouldpay for theplacer title
` $3,000, and should not pay the value of the improvements.
_ .At,Law. . — ._ _ v   , _
. Petition by school-district No. 2, of Lake county, for the condemnation
of the placer title of respondent, Searl,. to land occupied by petitioner’s `
school-house. .._r.   , , c
Tho·nwcmg Ja Sawyer and A. S. Blake, for petitioner, , ,
- . .     Owen. and S. P. Rose, for defendant. . . t n _
~ r Banwnn, J.`, ·(orally.)— It appears-that in April, 1881, a receiver’s re-
ceipt wasiissued for a lplacer claim, and on the 18th of May,.1881, a
patent was issued, and on the lst day of July, 1881, the school board
purchased from certain occupants of these premisesthis ground, and paid
$3,500 forit. It acted under theadvice of counsel in favor of the oc-
cupants, and againstthe placertitle. The land (less than an acre) was
then worth $3,000. — The board has since erected a $40,000 school-house
~on the property; .i     · t » »
t We all know that that which gives value to land in a city is not the
‘f eiiort of any one man; thatcit is the aggregation of the efforts of many
· citizens. The government, in the spring of 1881, sells this placcr ground
‘ for $2.50 an acre. In the same year an acre of that ground is worth
’ $3,000, made so, not by the efforts of this present owner, but by the ef-
4’forts and toil of the public. He has obtained from the public, represented
by the government, land- tor which he pays ·?»2.~50.· The efforts of a ·
, ’ H small portion of the public have made that land worth $3,000, and the
·- same ipubliohas taxed? itself to put$40,000 worth of improvements upon
it; and th—en,:becausethe legaltitle isput into his hands..he wants the
public, which has thusrmade the land worth $3,000, and then paid for
$40,000.worth of improvements upon it, to pay him that full sum,$40,-
,000. There is not one shadow of equity in it. Counselsays that this