Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Ross

RIDGE, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this declaratory judgment action alleging that it is threatened with a multiplicity of suits on identical claims, involving the same issues and same evidence, except in respect of the amount of damages claimed by the separate defendants. Defendants are farmers, owning’ land in Ray County, Missouri, located adjacent to plaintiff’s railroad right-of-way. Defendants Ross and Dugan, owners of one such tract of land, have filed three separate actions against plaintiff in a court of the State of Missouri, claiming damages to crops by reason of surface and…