Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Allen
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Fountain Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
In 1855 Martha Thompson owned the land involved in this controversy. During that year, the New Castle and Danville Railroad Company surveyed a line of road, and set stakes marking the line surveyed. Nothing further was done until 1869 or 1870, when the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad Company entered on ■the land in dispute and constructed a railroad, claiming the right to do so as the successor of the former company, and for a time operated and maintained a railroad'carrying mails, passengers and freight, as railroad companies usually do. To *582the rights of the companies…
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