Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific Railway Co. v. Yount

This action was brought to recover damages against the defendant company for its unauthorized appropriation and occupancy of the plaintiff’s land for the purposes of its railroad. Plaintiff had judgment for $916, from which the defendant prosecutes error to this court.

Aside from several specific denials in the answer, the defenses were that the cause of action did not accrue within six years before the suit was commenced, and that the defendant had been in the quiet and undisputed possession of the land, under claim and. color of title, made in good faith, for more than five successive years…