Branscum v. Drewery

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

The trial court held that appellees had acquired title to the south one-half of an abandoned railroad right-of-way by adverse possession. Appellants, who claimed ownership of said land by record title, now proseeute this appeal for a reversal on the grounds that (a) appellees had no color of title because the deed relied on contained an indefinite description and (b) there is no substantial evidence of adverse possession.

The railroad right-of-way involved in this litigation runs in a northeasterly direction across the northwest corner of the Southeast Quarter of…