Roland v. St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Co.

Citations

• 82 Kan. 546
• 108 P. 808
• 1910 Kan. LEXIS 299

Syllabus

<p>Railroad Bridge — Obstruction of a Stream — Duty to Anticipate Overflow. A petition held to state a cause of action in virtue of allegations that a railroad in laying its track over a stream and the adjacent lowland negligently omitted to provide an outlet for water that overflowed the banks in times of floods that were to have been anticipated, thereby causing injury to the plaintiff’s land.</p>