Phipps v. Kansas & Colorado Pacific Railway Co.

This action, originating in the District Court of Bourbon- County, was brought by William Phipps and others against the Kansas & Colorado Pacific Railway Company and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. The plaintiffs alleged in their petition that they were owners of a half-section of land therein described; that the defendants were railway corporations, and were in possession of a strip of land as their right of way across the land of the plaintiffs; that in 1885 or 1886 the Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Railway Company built its road across the land, without right, and that since that time it…