Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.15: Appropriation of private lands.

Union electric interurban terminal and depot companies may appropriate private lands for the purpose of connecting their main tracks, terminals, and depots with their own tracks and with the tracks of any other interurban electric railroad company, for acquiring depot sites, and for the construction of main track to avoid dangerous or difficult curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or to extend or shorten their railroad lines. Such power to appropriate property shall be exercised in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.