Barnes v. Southern Pac. Co.

(after stating the facts as abovej. Plaintiffs in error concede that there cannot be a voluntary alienation of a railroad right of way granted by an act of Congress, except for certain limited purposes, which are not pertinent to the present case; nor do they dispute the point that adverse possession does not run against a right of way so granted. But they assert that the ownership of the right of way is not necessarily absolute and exclusive, and the substance of their argument is that the District Court failed to give proper effect to the averments of their answer, setting up that the plain*483t…