Allard Cattle Co. v. Colorado & Southern Railway Co.

Petitioners brought this action to quiet title in themselves as abutting landowners to a 50-foot strip of land lying on either side of a 100-foot right-of-way which is owned and maintained by respondent Railroad Company, hereafter referred to as “the railroad. ’ ’ The trial court determined that the railroad had abandoned the strip of land in question, and that title to the land, therefore, vested in the landowners. Holding that the railroad cannot legally dimmish the width of its right-of-way by abandonment the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court. 33 Colo. App. 39, 516…