Johnson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This cause comes to this court on an appeal from an adverse ruling on plaintiff's demurrer to certain paragraphs, presently noted, contained in the answer of the defendant. The controlling proposition involves the right of the defendant railroad company to asser* its easement to' maintain a certain steel-girder bridge about 80 feet in length at its present elevation, and the openings in its grades as they were on May 21, 1904, where its lines were then and are now extending across the Missouri River bottom from a point east of Pacific Junction, Iowa, westerly to the Missouri River, without…