Edwards v. Missouri, Kansas & Eastern Railway Co.

Plaintiff sues to recover damages on account of tbe construction of defendant’s railroad across bis farm. Tbe petition is in five counts: First, for tbe value of a strip of land one hundred feet wide, containing five and eigbty-six one hundredth acres, alleged to have been wrongfully taken and appropriated as. a right of way for defendant’s railroad; second, damages occasioned to plaintiff’s land not so appropriated by reason of its being intersected by tbe railroad; third, for tbe unskillful location and construction-of tbe road bridges, etc., causing water to overflow and stand on…