Herrstrom v. Newton & Northwestern Railroad

I. This is an action in mandamus to compel the defendant to construct a private crossing over its track. The plaintiff., owns the north seventeen and one-half acres of the S. E. % S-. W. %, Hie N. E. yA S, W. %, and the S. E. % N. W. Y¿\. of section 18. The defendant’s railroad enters the southeast corner and passes through the seventeen and one-half-acre tract in a northwesterly direction, crossing the north line a little west of its center, and then through the ‘ southwest portion of the lower forty. There was a public highway along the east side of the land on 'the south, and in January,…