St. Joseph & St. Louis Railroad v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. (1) Respondent is liable for the rent and penalties, whether the lease of April 10, 1884, constituted an assignment or only a sublease. R. S. 1889, secs. 6388, 6389; Martin v. Hicks, 25 Mo. App. 359; Hulett v. Stockivell, 27 Mo.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. (1) Respondent is liable for the rent and penalties, whether the lease of April 10, 1884, constituted an assignment or only a sublease. R. S. 1889, secs. 6388, 6389; Martin v. Hicks, 25 Mo. App. 359; Hulett v. Stockivell, 27 Mo. App. 328; Garroute v. White, 92 Mo. 237. (2) Respondent is liable for damages for nonrepair of appellant’s property, whether the lease of April 10, 1883, constitutes an assignment or only á sublease, inasmuch as respondent covenanted with the Wabash to keep appellant’s road in repair. Bank v. Leyser, 116 Mo. 51; State ex rel.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
Prior to June, 1874, the St. Joseph & St. Louis Railroad Company owned a line oi railroad from North Lexington to the city of St. Joseph, a distance of about seventy-two miles, and on the first day *181of June, 1874, it leased its said railroad for a term of ninety-nine years to the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Company.
The St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Company was afterward, in 1879, consolidated with the Wabash Railway Company, of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, thereby forming a corporation known as “The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company,” and in the further…
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