State ex rel. Hines v. Girardeau
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. Robert A. Anthony, Judge. (1) The act gives the corporation power to hold the land in “fee simple.”
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Appeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. Robert A. Anthony, Judge. (1) The act gives the corporation power to hold the land in “fee simple.” A fee simple is defined to be the largest estate and most extensive interest that can be enjoyed in land, being the entire property therein. 2 Blackstone’s Commentaries, 106. The statute provides that “words and phrases shall be taken in the plain or ordinary and usual sense,” “but technical words, having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, shall be understood according to their' technical import.” Sec. 4160, R. S. 1899;'122 Mo. 400'.…
1Opinion of the Court
*91IN DIVISION TWO'.
GANTT, J.
— This is an appeal from the judgment and decree of the St. Francois Circuit Court perpetually enjoining and restraining the defendant, its officers, agents, servants, successors and assigns from further maintaining toll gates oni a certain road or highway, designated as a free public highway beginning at the city of Cape Girardeau, running thence to Jackson, the county seat of Cape Girardeau county, and from thence to the town of Burfordville, formerly known as Bollinger’s Mill.
The petition alleges that said road is now and for more than fifty years has been a…
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- Kellogg v. MalinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
- Boone County v. Burlington & Missouri River RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Venable v. Wabash Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Boyce v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1902
- City of St. Louis v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
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