Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Beck

Action by appellee against appellant for damages occasioned by the wrongful appropriation of a strip of land claimed by appellee. Demurrer' to complaint overruled. Motions to strike out parts of complaint, and to separate complaint into paragraphs, overruled. Answer in two paragraphs: The first being a general denial, and the second a special plea of twenty years occupancy by appellant and its predecessor and grantor, the TTnion and Logansport Railroad Company, adversely and under claim of title. Reply: (1) denial; and (2) that appellant and its predecessors and grantors never had possession…