Jones v. Florida C. & P. R. Co.

This is a bill asking an injunction to restrain defendant company from building its road and laying its track across a piece of land occupied by plaintiff, and in whicli he claims he has an equitable estate and interest sufficient to justify this action. The piece of land across which the right of way is in controversy is a portion of the Ft. Brooke reservation, adjoining the city of Tampa. It was originally held by the United States for military purposes, but it is alleged by plaintiff, arid conceded by defendant, that it had been transferred from the war to the interior department, and…