Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad v. Early

BOHANON, District Judge.

During construction of the Arkansas-Verdigris River Navigation System in eastern Oklahoma in the late 1960’s, the United States Corps of Engineers found it necessary to raise numerous bridges crossing the navigation channel. In order to limit the number of bridges to be constructed, the M-K-T Railroad and the Kansas, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railway agreed to relocate and consolidate their approaches to the channel, so as to necessitate the construction of only one new bridge. The land which constitutes the subject matter of this action is the strip over which the M-K-T’s…