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· 4/15/1885

Springfield Railway Co. v. City of Springfield

Citations

  • 85 Mo. 674

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that general public may acquire easement by prescription to coastal beach land
  • stating that general public may acquire easement by prescription to coastal beach land
  • “[Prescriptive easements, by their nature, can be utilized only on a tract-by-tract basis.... ” (quotation marks omitted)
  • “[P]rescriptive easements, by their nature, can be utilized only on a tract-by-tract basis . . . .” (quotation marks omitted)
  • an opinion of the justices “on proposed legislation is not binding upon the court in the event the proposed legislation should become law and a case should arise requiring its construction”
  • refusing to adopt Massachusetts rule for New Hampshire

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Judges: Black

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