City of Muscatine v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. — Hon. C. M. Waterman, Judge. Action at law to recover for grading and macadamizing a street of the plaintiff city, upon which lots alleged to be owned by the defendant abut. The cause was tried without a jury, and judgment rendered for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The petition in the first count alleges that in 1853 the plaintiff granted to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company, the predecessor of defendant, certain rights, privileges and property, within the corporate limits of the' city, pertaining to the right of way for its tracks, and to certain land whereon Stations, depots and warehouses, turn-tables and switches, and the like, should be erected, on condition that certain land and streets specified should be used and occupied for the purposes named; and the further condition that if parts of certain lots should be procured, and a…
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- City of Pella v. ScholteSupreme Court of Iowa · 1868
- C. R. & M. R. R. v. Carroll Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1875
- Hollingsworth v. Des Moines & St. Louis R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1884
- Burlington & Missouri River Railroad v. SpearmanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861
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- Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. v. LindquistSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
- Allen v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1899
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