Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Shaw

Duffie, C.

The defendant in error is the owner of the east half of the south-west quarter of section 31, in township i of range *3814 east, in Jefferson county, Nebraska. In 1892, the plaintiff in error constructed its road through Jefferson county, passing in a southwesterly direction oyer a part of the land of the defendant in error; entering on the same about 1,100 feet north of the southeast corner thereof, and leaving it about 800 feet west of the southeast corner. A draw runs through this land in a southeasterly direction, which drains a large body of country, estimated by the witnesses at…