Stoutimore v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad

This is a suit in equity wherein an injunction was sought to prevent defendant from filling up, closing, or obstructing a certain underground crossing for stock connecting two segments of a farm owned by plaintiff and, further, to require defendant to remove such obstructions as already have been placed therein by defendant. The facts are as follows:

In 1897, the Kansas City & Northern Connecting Railway Company constructed a line of railway through Clinton County, Missouri, and over the lands of one Thomas Stanton, the right of way cutting an eighty-acre tract owned by him into two parcels.…