Rains v. Louisville N R. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company sued .and recovered from Neal Rains possession of a strip of land 25 feet wide and 889 feet long, and Rains has appealed.

In 1906 the Pine Mountain Railroad Company was preparing to construct a railroad along the Cumberland river. In procuring the right of way therefor they ac quired 8.05 acres of land from Sim Rains, which was a strip 125 feet wide and 889 feet long; 75 feet of this was west of the center line of the proposed road, and 50 feet was east of that center line. The house of Sim Rains…