Cox v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Clay Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge. (1) Defendant’s objection to the admission of any evidence under the petition, on the ground that the amendatory Act of 1883 was unconstitutional, null and void, should have been sustained.
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Appeal from Clay Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge. (1) Defendant’s objection to the admission of any evidence under the petition, on the ground that the amendatory Act of 1883 was unconstitutional, null and void, should have been sustained. It was error to overrule such objection, (a) The Act of 1883 is unconstitutional in this, that the words to be inserted in section 810, Revised Statutes 1879, by said amendment, and which were in fact inserted in said section as it appears in said act, were not set forth in full in the prefatory clause of said Act of 1883 as required by section…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is an action to recover damages done to plaintiff’s crops by water, in the years 1896 and 1897, by reason of the failure of the defendant company to construct and maintain ditches and drains along the sides of its roadbed as required'by section 810, Revised Statutes 1879, amended by the Act of 1883. [Laws 1883, p. 50; R. S. 1889, sec. 2614.]
The answer of the defendant set up the incorporation of the Kansas City, Galveston & Lake Superior Railroad Company; the change of its name to the Kansas City & Cameron Railroad Company; its acquisition of the title to the right of way through the…
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