Legal Opinion
Hefty v. All Other Members of the Certified Settlement Class
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 2, 1997No. 61S05-9507-CV-799PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SULLIVAN, Justice.
In the context of litigation to determine the ownership of abandoned railroad rights-of-way, we set forth the principles to be used by Indiana trial courts in evaluating proposed settlements in class action cases.
Background
Warren Buchanan filed a class action in the Parke Circuit Court on July 31, 1992. Buchanan claimed that defendants, Penn Central Corporation and U.S. Railroad Vest Corporation (USRV), had slandered the title of persons owning land adjacent to the abandoned Penn Central railroad line known as the Crawfordsville Secondary Track.…
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