Case ID: kan_48/html/0576-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company v. The Board of Commissioners of Osage County.—The Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad Company v. Same.
    
      Highway — Grossing Railroad Traok — Compensation. Where a highway is established across a railroad company’s right-of-way, it is entitled to compensation for all necessary expenditures in constructing cattle-guards, and such other things as it is required by statute to construct on account of the highway.
    
      Error from Osage District Court.
    
    Action by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company against the board of commissioners of Osage county, and an action by the Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad Company against same defendants, each for the recovery of compensation for constructing cattle-guards at public crossings of their roads. On judgments for defendants, at the November term, 1888, plaintiffs bring error.
    
      Geo. R. Peek, A. A. Hurd, and Robert Dunlap, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      H. B. Hughbanlcs, for defendants in error.
   Per Curiam:

The judgments of the court below in these two cases will be reversed, upon the authority of the following cases: K. C. Rld. Co. v. Comm’rs of Jackson Co., 45 Kas. 716; Comm’rs of Greenwood Co. v. K. C. E. & S. K. Rly. Co., 46 id. 104.