Vandalia Railroad v. Topping
Indiana Court of Appeals
Action from Greene Circuit Court; Theodore E. Slinkard, Judge. Action by George W. Topping and another against the Vandalia Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoran, J.
This controversy is over a small tract of real estate in the village of Lyons, Greene county, Indiana. Appellees claim the fee-simple title to the same and assert this right in two paragraphs of complaint, one for possession and damages, and the other to quiet title. On the part of appellant, it claims the ownership as a part of its right of way for railroad purposes, and which it asserts by way of cross-complaint to quiet title. Upon issues being joined by an answer of general denial addressed to the complaint and cross-complaint by the respective parties, the cause was submitted to a jury,…
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