Baros v. Texas Mexican Railway Co.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In this property dispute, each of the plaintiffs (collectively, the “landowners”) owns a parcel of land in Jackson or Victoria County, Texas, subject to a railroad right-of-way referred to as the “Victoria Segment” of the “Rosenberg Line.” 1 The landowners sought a judgment declaring that the portion of the Victoria Segment’s right-of-way that abuts their land reverted to them as a matter of law after Southern Pacific Transportation Company (“Southern Pacific”), the former owner of the line, allegedly abandoned it. The district court dismissed for want of subject…