Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Johnson

The track of the railroad of the appellant company crosses from north to south a tract of land belonging to appellee, in Mercer county. A prior owner of the land conveyed a strip one hundred feet wide to the company in 1879, upon which the track was laid. The track of the company was carried over a depression or ravipe by a bridge, of the length of about sixty-four feet when the road was first constructed, but subsequently the length of the bridge was reduced to forty-eight feet. In August, 1902, the company began the work of filling this depression under the bridge on its right of way with…