Hunt v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

The material facts in the case, as stated in the pleadings, and found specially by the court below, are these: More than twenty years before the cause of action, as relied upon by appellant, accrued, the appellee railway company, by appropriate condemnation and appropriation proceedings, under the statute then in force, acquired a right of way through the lands then and now owned by B. C. Bowell, and constructed its railway thereon. On the lands of Bowell there is a farm crossing-and two gates, which were constructed by the railway company about twenty years ago for his use and convenience,…