United States v. Sandlass

FORMAN, District Judge.

The complaint of the government al-' leges that the defendant at a time unknown to it erected a building approximately two hundred feet in length extending along and encroaching upon its forty foot right 'of way to the extent of approximately thirty feet. A mandatory injunction is sought for the removal of the encroachment.

The defendant, William Sandlass, now deceased, denies the government’s title to a forty foot right of way, and asserts that such right of way could not exceed a width of twenty-four feet, that being the practical extent at the timé of the government’s…