Gray v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

John Gray owned the east half of the north-west quarter of section 22, in township 40, range 13, in Cook county, and conve3redthe southern portion of it to his son, George L. Gray. On January 1,1874, said John Gray and George L. Gray, then owning the different parts of said eighty-acre tract in severalty, conveyed by warranty deed a strip of land one hundred feet wide and about half a mile long across said tract to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a corporation of this State, for right of way of its railway, for the consideration therein mentioned, and the deed contained…