Etheredge v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Tibbets, C.

This is an action by the plaintiff to enjoin defendant from cutting down trees on what plaintiff alleges is a part of lot 6 in the south half of the northwest quarter of section 82, township 12 north, of range 9 east of the sixth P. M., in.Cass county, Nebraska, of which plaintiff alleges he is the owner. The evidence is iindisputed that the premises in controversy lie within the congressional grant of right of way to the defendant’s grantors, being land granted by the congress of the United States to the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company over the public lands of the…