Case Name: The St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad Company, Defendant in Error, v. William P. Lewright et al., Plaintiffs in Error
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1891-02-28
Citations: 44 Mo. App. 212
Docket Number: 
Parties: The St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad Company, Defendant in Error, v. William P. Lewright et al., Plaintiffs in Error.
Judges: AlLthe judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 44
Pages: 212–213

Head Matter:
The St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad Company, Defendant in Error, v. William P. Lewright et al., Plaintiffs in Error.
St. Louis Court of Appeals,
February 28, 1891.
Appeal: jurisdiction. An action for the condemnation of land for public uses involves title to land, and the supreme court has-exclusive jurisdiction of an appeal therein.
Error to the St. Louis County Circuit Court. — Hon, W. W. Edwards, Judge.
Transferred to supreme court.
John W. Booth, for plaintiffs in error.
R. II. Stevens and T. A. Lowe, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Rombauer, P. J.
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. to us that the supreme court in effect has so decided this question by retaining jurisdiction of the cause of the Chicago, etc., Ry. Co. v. Young, 96 Mo. 39, which involved the validity of condemnation proceedings for road purposes, and which came to that court upon a direct appeal from the Clinton circuit court.
It is, therefore, ordered that the clerk at once transfer all the papers in this case, with a copy of this order of transfer, to the supreme court.
AlLthe judges concur.