St. Louis Railroad v. South St. Louis Railroad

When the case of the St. Louis Railroad *68Company against the Northwestern Railroad Company was before this court in 1878, (69 Mo. 65,) it was rather assumed than directly decided, that the act of January 16th, 1860, was still in force. The judgment of the court of appeals which was before us for review in that case, proceeded upon the theory that the act named had not been repealed, and the judgment of the circuit court was based upon the same view, and although the question of the repeal of the act of 1860 was presented by the record, it was not urged in the argument, and we did not,…