Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Christian
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, McDowell County. Ejectment by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company against Sarah Christian and others. Verdict for defendants, motion for new trial overruled and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, President:
The railway company in November, 1908, sued defendant Christian and nineteen others in ejectment, in the circuit court of McDowell County, to recover' so much of the land claimed by them as lay north -of the southern line of the original right of way of the Taeger and Southern Railway Company, to which plaintiff had succeeded in right and title, particularly that portion thereof conveyed to the said Taeger and Southern Railway Company by Ellen and Preston Beavers by deed dated July 18, 1899. The description of said southern line and the end lines of said right of way as…
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