Smith v. Chicago, Alton & St. Louis R. R.

This was an action of ejectment, in the- Madison circuit court, brought by Irwin Z. Smith, against the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad Company, to-recover the possession of a certain tract, of land, being part of claim 484, survey 623, situate in the American bottom, near to and opposite St. Louis, and which the defendants were occupying as a part of the track of their railroad.

There were several trials of the issue made up between the parties, the first resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff. A new trial having been awarded the defendants under the statute, a verdict was rendered in…