Jones v. New Orleans & N. E. R.

This case involves principally questions of the interpretation of the effect of three deeds to a railroad, of whether abutting landowners, who have acquired title by adverse possession, own up to the center line of the adjoining railroad right of way, and of lack of process upon certain parties.

The appellants, 59 in number, are lineal descendants of Ransom J. Jones, who at the time of his death intestate in 1872 owned the NE14 of the NE'/4 of Section 32, Township 1 North, Range 13‘ East, Jasper County, Mississippi. Ransom Jones left surviving him his widow, Melinda Jane Jones and eight…