Shane v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad

This action was to recover damages from the defendant for the destruction of five acres of vegetables the plaintiff had in the Missouri River bottom, charged to have been occasioned by the embankment of defendant’s road-bed constructed across a slough, without any culvert, by reason of which iti the summer of 1873 a rise in the Missouri River and heavy rain-falls in the vicinity were prevented from pursuing their accustomed natural channel to a lake and thence to the river again. By reason of this obstruction, the waters of the overflowed river and the excessive rains were thrown upon the…