State Highway Commission v. Woodward

Appellees, who were the complainants in the court below, exhibited their bill against appellant seeking cancellation of appellant’s claim of title to a strip of land, said to contain approximately ten acres, so far as that claim affects appellees, who assert that they are the owners of an undivided half interest in said land. The bill alleges that the said half interest had been condemned by the Southern Railway Company for a right-of-way in 1912; that the railroad constructed and operated thereon had subsequently passed into the ownership of the Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City Railroad…