Legal Opinion
SAMUEL C. JOHNSON 1988 TRUST v. Bayfield County
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 26, 2009No. 06-cv-348-bbcPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.
From the late 1800s until the late 1970s, railroad tracks ran across land now owned by plaintiffs Samuel C. Johnson 1988 Trust, Imogene Johnson, John and Kay Hawksford and Dean and Kathryn Johnson in the Town of Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. The tracks are long gone but the title to the railroad’s right-of-way remains in dispute.
Plaintiffs Samuel C. Johnson Trust and Imogene Johnson claim title to their lands on the ground that they purchased the right-of-way from the Chicago & North Western Transportation Company in 1980; the…
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