Whelan v. Union Pacific Railroad

Action to recover tbe value of certain real estate in tbe city of Ornaba of wbicb tbe plaintiff claimed to be the owner, and which be alleged bad been wrongfully taken from him by defendants to bis damage in tbe sum of $10,000, for wbicb be prayed judgment. The defendants denied plaintiff’s ownership, and allegéd that the title to tbe land in controversy was in tbe city of Omaha; that it was a part of a regularly laid out public street of that city known as Eighth street; that the mayor and city council, by an ordinance duly passed and approved on the 19th day of March, 1907, bad granted tbe…