Payne v. Kansas & A. Val. R. Co.

The plaintiffs filed their bill in equity to obtain an injunction against the defendant. They allege that the defendant corporation, by virtue of an act of congress entitled “An act to authorize the Kansas & Arkansas Valley Ry. Co. to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved June 1, 1886, were invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, owning, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory,, beginning at a point on the eastern line of said…