Siemers v. St. Louis Electric Terminal Railway Co.

The appellants brought suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis to restrain the respondent from constructing and operating an underground railway in Twelfth Street upon which the property of appellants abutted. By stipulation of the parties, made a rule of court (of date November 2, 1931) in the division in which the suit was pending, whereby the cause was transformed into a statutory arbitration pursuant to said rule of court, and to be governed by the laws of eminent domain applying to condemnation proceedings by corporations.

The case took the course usual in such proceedings.…