St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado Railroad v. Lewright

This is a proceeding seeking to-condemn the land of the defendants for a right of way of plaintiff’s railroad. We have decided at the present term in Musick v. Railroad, 43 Mo. App. 326, that where proceedings of this character contemplate, practically a divestiture of title, they are suits involving title to real estate, within the meaning of section 12, article 6, of the constitution, and that the supreme court has-exclusive appellate jurisdiction thereof. It would seem. *213to us that the supreme court in effect has so decided this question by retaining jurisdiction of the cause of the…