Legal Opinion
Hagge v. Kansas City S. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
Decided November 5, 1900PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Equity. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
This is a bill by several distinct landowners in the state of Kansas in the nature of a mandatory injunction against the defendant railway company to compel it to remove certain obstructions consisting of an embankment built on its line of railway and certain pilings and débris under one of its bridges on the Marais de Cygnes river hereinafter designated as “the river,” which are alleged to occasion the overflow of the complainants’ land in times of high water. The defendant has demurred to the bill.
It is apparent on the face of the bill that much damage to the…
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