Flint & Pere Marquette Railway Co. v. Gordon
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Osceola. Bill to quiet title to right of way. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
The bill of complaint is filed in this case to quiet tbe title of complainant to the right of way now claimed and occupied for railway purposes across a certain eighty-acre lot of land owned and occupied by defendant in the county of Osceola.
The land belonged to the United States in 1868, and was entered by the defendant as a homestead in that year, and patented to him, on perfecting the proofs, in 1874. The complainant laid out its line across the land and constructed its railway over it in 1872. Some little improvement had then been made by the defendant and a portion of this was included…
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