Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad v. Mayor of Monroe

Plaintiff alleges that in the year 1858 it acquired for depot •and railroad purposes the tract of land formerly belonging to the heirs of E. N. Wilson, in and near the town of Monroe — that it was acquired by purchase and duly-recorded.

That in the year 1859-60 it acquired for a valuable consideration from Dr. John Calderwood and wife a strip of land one hundred and fifty feet wide through the tract of land immediately adjoining the Wilson tract below and on the south thereof — that same, however, was acquired by the original Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad Company, which constructed…