East Side Levee & Sanitary District v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad

The appellant, the East Side Levee and Sanitary District, filed in the county court of St. Clair county its petition, to- which the appellees, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company and the trustees arid parties interested in mortgage indebtedness of the railroad company, were defendants, praying the court to ascertain the compensation to be paid to the railroad company for the excavation of a channel more than 100 feet wide and about 30 feet deep across the railroad property and through the embankment on which the railroad track was laid, for a waterway for the petitioner. The railroad company…