Central, Trust Co. v. Wabash, St. L. & P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
In Equity. Petitions by Hanes & Porch and by A. R. Colburn, interveners, against John McHulta, receiver of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company, appointed in an action by the Central Trust Company of New York against said railway company, claiming damages for injuries sustained by a flood caused bv an alleged insufficient culvert.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, District Judge.
The intervening petitioners Hanes & Porch claim that they were damaged by a flood which, by reason of an insufficient culvert, caused such an accumulation of water as to submerge and injure their flour mill and property situated on the up-stream side of the railway. The intervening petitioner A. R Colburn claims to have been damaged by the insufficiency of a culvert under the railway, which caused such an accumulation of water as to wash away the embankment, and to damage. and destroy his lumber and lumber yard situated on the down-stream side of the railway. These…
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