Northern Gravel Co. v. Muscatine North & South Railway Co.

The defendant company owns and operates a line of railroad in Muscatine County in this state. At the place under consideration, the company’s right of way and track extend from the southwest to the northeast, as indicated by the line A B C on the following plat.

The land lying along and to the east of the railway has, for many years, been very largely devoted to the raising of melons and other garden products. In the year 1899, the owners of these lands, or some of them, desiring more convenient shipping facilities, entered into an arrangement with the railroad company by which, in…