Eureka Real Estate & Investment Co. v. Southern Real Estate & Financial Co.

The Eureka Real Estate and Investment Company instituted this action to try and quiet title to a strip of land which in 1900 had been condemned as right of way for a street railway. The strip of land consists of contiguous tracts, one twenty-five feet wide and 200 feet long, the other fifty feet wide and ninety feet long. The theory of the action is that the street railway company's succssor in title, the St. Louis Public Service Company, abandoned the right of way and therefore the title is subject to being quieted and determined. The trial court found that the land had not been abandoned…