Sappington v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

Plaintiff alleges in her petition “ that she is a freeholder owning lands in the county of St. Louis, and that defendant is, and was on September 5, 1881, a corporation owning and operating railroads under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, entitled an act to incorporate the Pacific Eailroad Company, approved March 12, 1849, and subsequent acts amendatory thereto. That the line of defendant’s road forms the southern boundary of her lands ; That, on said 5th of September, defendant, whilst running *87its cars upon said railroad, the locomotive attached to and ■drawing said…