Legal Opinion
Birlew v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided February 16, 1904PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Appeal from Shannon Circuit Court. — Now. W. N. Evans, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
Plaintiff sued for the cost of a bridge he built as an approach to a part of a farm crossing over the defendant’s.right of way. The agreed facts on which the case was decided are these:
“Plaintiff is owner of lands described in his petition. That in 1888’the Current River Railroad Company constructed its line of road across plaintiff’s farm, dividing one eighty-acre tract thereof.
*562. “That afterwards the Current River Railroad ■Company conveyed its property to the Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis Railroad Company, which latter company leased said property on the fifth day of October, 1901, to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Baker v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Farley v. C., R. I. & P. R. Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1875
- Town of Roxbury v. Central Vermont R. R.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1887
- Madison v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1895
- Givens v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1851
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Bullock v. Yakima Valley Transportation Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1919
- Powell v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1908
- Peery v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1906
- Briscoe Home Trustees v. Ohio River RailroadWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1916
- Jennings v. Missouri Pacific RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1926
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