Saunders v. Railroad
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. L. H. Estes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
This is an action of ejectment. The plaintiffs are the owners of a tract of land lying between the city of Memphis and the town of Raleigh, in Shelby County. The defendant, • a regularly chartered railroad company, claims as, owner and operates a steam commercial railroad between Memphis and Raleigh, its line of track passing over and through the tract of land owned by the plaintiffs. The right of way through this land was taken, and the road constructed and put m operation by the Raleigh Springs Railroad Company in 1891, such appropriation, so far as disclosed by this record, having been…
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