State Roads Commission v. Johnson

This appeal is from a decree declaring that the appellees are vested with fee simple title to a strip of land lying within the old line of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad Company between Annapolis and Crownsville. The decree further declares that the Annapolis and Elkridge Railroad Company, the predecessor in title of the W., B. & A., acquired only “an easement for railroad purposes” which was lost “upon the abandonment of the use of said easement for railroad purposes in 1935.”

The facts are stipulated or undisputed. The appellees purchased in 1944 a tract of land…