Biles v. Tacoma, Olympia & Gray's Harbor Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

On May 11, 1876, the Northern Pacific Bailroad Company, then being the owner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 1, in township No. 17, north, of range 6, west of the Willamette meridian, *510conveyed the same to the respondent by a warranty deed containing the following clause:

“Reserving and excepting therefrom, however, a strip of land extending through the sátne (or so much of such strip as may be within said described premises), of the width of four hundred feet, that is, two hundred feet on each side of the center…