Williams v. Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Macon Circuit Coiwt. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge; (1) The court erred in striking out a portion of the first count of the petition on the ground that the determination of the respondents’ engineers could not be impeached except in a court of equity.
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Appeal from Macon Circuit Coiwt. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge; (1) The court erred in striking out a portion of the first count of the petition on the ground that the determination of the respondents’ engineers could not be impeached except in a court of equity. (2) The court erred in excluding plaintiffs’ evidence offered to show that no measurement or calculations were made by the respondents’ engineers, and that the work had been made by appellants’ engineers, and was correctly stated-in the petition. 2 Wood on Eailway Law, 995-997 Stark v. DeGraff, 22 Minn. 431; Herrick v. Railroad, 27…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
In the year 1887 the Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Company of Iowa, a corporation of the state of Iowa, began the construction of a line of railroad from Kansas City, Missouri, through Missouri and Iowa to the Mississippi river, and the Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Company, an Illinois corporation, began the construction of a railroad from the Mississippi river to Chicago in continuation of the other line. A. A. Robinson was second vice-president and chief engineer of the Illinois company. B. F. Booker was chief engineer of the Iowa company.
On the twelfth of January, 1887,…
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