Legal Opinion

Jennings v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided February 1, 1926Published

1Opinion of the CourtBland, J.

— -This is a suit for damages based upon section 9948, Revised Statutes 1919, alleged to have resulted by reason of. the failure of defendant to maintain an approach to a farm crossing situated at a certain point where defendant’s railroad 'intersects plaintiffs’ farm lands in Cass county. The petition alleges that defendant constructed a bridge over a ditch dug by it, which bridge constituted a portion of the approach to the farm crossing and that the defendant failed to keep this bridge in repair; that plaintiffs gave defendant the statutory notice to repair the bridge which it failed to do…

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Town of Roxbury v. Central Vermont R. R.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1887
  2. Birlew v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1904

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