Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad v. City of Richmond

When this case was decided by the trial court, the learned judge of that court delivered a written opinion, in which he made the following statement of facts:

*232“This is an action by the plaintiff Railroad Company against the city of Richmond, in which it claims the right to recover from the city one-half of the total cost of bridge building and construction work done in connection with the street crossings of its James River Division line!, locally known as the belt line. The total amount, one-half of which it is claimed that the city should pay, results from the depression of the tracks of the…