McRaven v. Culley

J. S. McRaven filed a bill in the circuit court of Alexander county for an injunction against the road commissioner of road district No. 5 in that county restraining him from entering upon the complainant’s land and tearing down the fence and from proceeding to open a public highway over the land. The bill alleged that the complainant was the owner of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 9, in township 14 south, range 3 west of the third principal meridian; that more than thirty years before the commencement of the suit a railroad right of way existed across this…