Lake Brie & Western Railroad v. Whitham

This was a suit in ejectment, brought by Eugene H. Whitham, against the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, to recover a strip of land forty or fifty feet in width and nine hundred and sixty-five feet long, lying between the north line of blocks 13 and 14, in the village of Rankin, Vermilion county, and the north line of the south-east quarter of section 11, township 23, north of range 14, west, being a part of the land claimed by the defendant as its right of way. The suit was brought November 29, 1892, the declaration consisting of one count, which describes the premises, and alleges…