Wood v. Michigan Air Line Railroad

This is ejectment, brought to recover possession of a strip of land extending across plaintiff's farm, and comprising the right of way of defendants. The title to the farm is conceded to be in the plaintiff, and the principal questions involved are:

1. Whether the executory contract hereafter referred to •operated as a license to the defendants to construct the road on the line finally adopted.

2. Whether, if it did not have this effect, the plaintiff has by his conduct estopped himself from maintaining •ejectment.

1. The agreement in question reads as follows:

“ Eor a valuable consideration, to…