Keenan v. Broad River Power Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

The plaintiffs brought this action to recover of defendants damages for trespass upon real estate. The- complaint, after alleging the title of plaintiffs to the land, and the corporate capacity of the defendants, recites chain of events by which defendants acquired an easement over this land as right-o f-way for their street railway. It then recites that in 1927 defendants abandoned the right-of-way and stopped the operation of its roads whereupon the property reverted to plaintiff as the successors in title to R. C. Keenan, now…