Ball v. Gross

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Special Judge.

On October 30, 1959, the owners of an undeveloped tract of land in St. Louis County, consisting of approximately 25 acres, conveyed to Blanche Gross, defendant herein, “a perpetual easement,” 40 feet in width and described by metes and bounds, over and across said tract for “railroad purposes.” The eastern terminus of the easement strip was the boundary of the right-of-way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. The deed provided that the easement was “exclusive” except the grantor of the easement had certain rights to use the railroad…