Bode v. Flobert Industries, Inc.

We have before us two cases which were consolidated *490for trial and for hearing in this court. Both involve title to abandoned railroad rights-of-way. One will be referred to as the Hoefer case and the other, the Bode case. In each instance former owners executed conveyances to the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company. The conveyances were identical except for the description of the land crossed by the rights-of-way. The conveyance to the Hoefer land was dated November 8, 1886, and to the Bode land, November 22, 1886.

The substance of the two conveyances is as follows except for…