Wabash R. v. Lewis

WYMAN, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by the United States District Court for the Central Division of the Western District of Missouri, in an action brought by the appellees, as plaintiffs below, against appellant, defendant below, for the recovery of $7,500 in damages alleged to have resulted to the residence property of the plaintiffs, situated at Columbia, Mo., by reason of the failure on *520the part of the defendant railroad company to construct and maintain necessary and proper ditches and openings along and through a certain embankment constructed and used by…