St. Joseph Union Depot Co. V. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. From tiie record in this case it appears that in the year 1880 the plaintiff in error was incorporated under the laws of the state of Missouri, under the name of the St. Joseph Union Depot Company, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a union railway depot at the city of St. Joseph, Mo., tlie corporation being in fact organized by the railway companies then operating lines of…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. From tiie record in this case it appears that in the year 1880 the plaintiff in error was incorporated under the laws of the state of Missouri, under the name of the St. Joseph Union Depot Company, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a union railway depot at the city of St. Joseph, Mo., tlie corporation being in fact organized by the railway companies then operating lines of railway to St. Josepili. On the 10th day of April, 1888, a written contract for the use of the union depot facilities…
1Opinion of the CourtShiras, District Judge
The first question necessary to be considered is the effect to be given to the judgment of the state court of Missouri in the case brought in the circuit court of Buchanan county, in which it was adjudged that the Rock Island Company was liable to the Depot Company for the rentals accruing under the contract with the Kansas Company for the months during which, up to that date, the Rock Island Company had used the depot facilities for the trains belonging to the lines of the Kansas Company, it being contended by plaintiff in error that by the decision and judgment in that case the question of…
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