Osburn v. Supreme Express & Transfer Co.

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The dispute concerns a promontory of land, known as Cooper’s Point, on the main *362channel of the Lake of the Ozarks in Morgan County. The plaintiffs own contiguous tracts of land on the Point on which stand their dwelling houses. These tracts are on an eminence high above the water. The defendant Supreme Express and Transfer Company [wholly owned by defendant Bussmann] has a splendid edifice — the Chateau du Lac — on the waterfront.1 Two ways interlace the Bussmann property, the Upper Road and the Lower Road, and are the only practical means of access to and from the…