ST. LOUIS, &C., RAILWAY CO. v. BERRY


113 U.S. 465 (1885)

ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. BERRY & Another, Railroad Commissioners.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1885.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.H. McGowan, Mr. A.T. Britton, Mr. A.B. Browne, and Mr. John F. Dillon for plaintiff in error.

Mr. U.M. Rose for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

The legislature of Arkansas passed an act, January 12, 1853, to incorporate the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, with power to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad from a point on the Mississippi River opposite the mouth of the Ohio, in the State of Missouri, by way of Little Rock, to the Texas boundary line, near Fulton, in Arkansas, with one or more branches...

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