Goldman v. RBC, INC.

Justice BURNETT:

RBC, Inc. (Petitioner) challenges the Court of Appeals’ decision affirming the circuit court judge’s ruling quieting title to a strip of land containing an abandoned railway in David W. Goldman and Emilie E. Goldman (the Goldmans). We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1846, the General Assembly, anxious to encourage the building of railroads, granted a liberal charter by statute to the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad Company. In provisions typically seen in railroad charters of that era, the railroad was empowered to obtain land on which to lay track by buying it and…