State v. Des Moines & Kansas City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes,. Judge. This is an action founded upon an order of the-railroad commissioners requiring the defendant tore-establish and maintain a station on its line of railroad at a place called “Leslie.” The district • court, after hearing the testimony of a large number of witnesses, entered a decree dismissing the petition. The^ plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtRothbock, J.
— I. The defendant is the owner of a railroad which it operates from Des Moines, Iowa, to-*645Cainsville, in the state of Missouri. It passes through Osceola, the county seat of Clarke county, where it crosses the main line of the Chicago,- Burlington & Quincy Railroad. About fourteen miles south of Osceola, it crossed the Keokuk & Western railroad, at a station called “Van Wert.” The Keokuk & Western road runs from Keokuk to Van Wert, where it connects with the Humeston & Shenandoah Railroad, which runs west to Shenandoah. The defendant’s road was constructed to the points named in 1882, and at…
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