Dixon v. Giles

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Prior to 1887 a corporation planned to build a railroad from G-racey, Kentucky to Clarksville, Tennessee, running southwardly through Christian County. It procured rights of way by purchase and condemnation. Later the L. & N. R. R. took over, completed and operated the road.

The controversy involves a portion of the road bed as it crossed the Fox and Radford tracts (now Dixon’s) a distance of about 4000 feet. Shortly before the suit instituted by appellees, Giles and eight others, Dixon erected fences, claiming title to the land, and that…