City of Grand Rapids v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.

This is a suit to require defendant to remove a side track from Richmond street, formerly North street, in the city of Grand Rapids. Defendant claims prescriptive easement through adverse possession of the street for over 15 years, prior to the enactment of Act No. 46, Pub. Acts 1907, superseded by 3 Comp. Laws 1915, § 12311, par. 3. Only the general situation will here be set up as a more detailed statement of the early history of the track may be found, by any one interested, in Kent Furniture Manfg. Co. v. Long, 111 Mich. 383.

The track was originally laid in 1869 by A. B. Long & Sons,…