Coates & Hopkins Realty Co. v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co.

The petition comprises an action to ascertain and determine title to certain land situate in Kansas City, known as the old Union Depot site. It was converted into an equity suit by the answers and cross-petitions of defendants Kansas City Terminal Railway Company and Illinois Merchants Trust Company and Charles G. Hutcheson, trustees, and was tried as such. The decree and judgment vested the fee simple title to said land in defendant Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, subject to a first mortgage of fifty million dollars executed to said trustees for the use of bondholders. The plaintiff…