St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad v. Steele
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad Company, describing itself as a corporation created and subsisting under and by virtue of the laws of Kansas and Nebraska, and as a common carrier operating a railroad as a continuous line from the city of Grand Island, in the State of Nebraska, to the city of St. Joseph, in the State of Missouri, which railroad passes through Doniphan County, in the State of Kansas, filed, .in…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad Company, describing itself as a corporation created and subsisting under and by virtue of the laws of Kansas and Nebraska, and as a common carrier operating a railroad as a continuous line from the city of Grand Island, in the State of Nebraska, to the city of St. Joseph, in the State of Missouri, which railroad passes through Doniphan County, in the State of Kansas, filed, .in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, a bill of complaint against R. M. Steele, sheriff.of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad Company, in its petition filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas against R. M. Steele, sheriff of Doniphan County, Kansas, alleged that the controversy in the case involved the construction of an act of Congress approved July 14, 1870, granting to the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company the right to build a bridge and maintain the same across the Missouri River at or near St. Joseph, Missouri; and also of an act of Congress approved March 5, 1872, authorizing and empowering the St. Joseph Bridge Building…
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