Fleck v. Universal-Cyclops Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

Joseph McKeon was the owner in fee of a large tract of land in Allegheny County in 1885. In that year he conveyed to the Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway Company a strip of land comprising 11.83 acres, The deed recited that for a consideration of $6,000 McKeon “granted . . . and conveyed ... to the said Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway Company * and to its successors and assigns for the uses and purposes of their railway and the contraction of works connected therewith, a right-of-way through and over said land the whole distance of said…