City of Hopkins v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad

This is a proceeding begun by the respondent for the purpose of opening and extending Barnard *99street in the town of Hopkins, through the depot grounds of the appellant at that point. Said depot grounds consist of a strip of land 200 feet wide, and probably 800 or 1,000 feet long, on which are situated the depot buildings and the main line and three side-tracks of the appellant’s road. Said street runs from east to west, and is eighty-eight feet wide, and the respondent proposes to appropriate a strip out of said depot grounds eighty-eight feet in width by 200 feet in length, so as to extend…