Atchison & Nebraska Railroad v. Garside
Supreme Court of Kansas
M'ror from, Atchison District Court. Garside owned two lots of 45 feet by 100 feet each, on which was erected a large brick warehouse, fronting on the levee, in the city of Atchison.
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M'ror from, Atchison District Court. Garside owned two lots of 45 feet by 100 feet each, on which was erected a large brick warehouse, fronting on the levee, in the city of Atchison. He sued plaintiff in error h> recover damages for injury to his business by the building of a railroad and operating the same along the levee in the public highway in front of his lots, which he claimed constituted an obstruction to travel in the street, thereby depriving plaintiff of pse of the street, rendering access to his lots dangerous, depriving him of the proper use of his lots, and thereby rendering his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
*5641. Fee of streets incount™for use of the public. *5652. cities as control over publicana grounds. *563The defendant in error, Joshua Garside, sued the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad Company for constructing and operating its railroad over, along and across a certain piece of ground in the city of Atchison known as the “Levee,” or Levee street, and alleged by him to be a “public highway.” The railroad' company demurred to the plaintiff’s petition on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and also moved the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Porter v. North Missouri RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1862
- Slatten v. Des Moines Valley R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1870
- Comm'rs of Franklin Co. v. LathropSupreme Court of Kansas · 1872
- Lackland v. North Missouri RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1863
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