Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Meyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cunningham, J.:

Some time about 1886, the defendant the Leavenworth, Northern & Southern Railway Company constructed a -line of railroad across a section of land belonging to the defendant in error, running in a general direction from north to south. It crossed a natural watercourse known as Wolf creek. In crossing this creek a Howe truss bridge was built some sixty or seventy feet in length, which was placed on pile piers and had pile or trestle approaches for some distance at either end. Faulty proceedings in condemnation having been had, the…