St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. White

(xrieein .Smith, C. J.

The question is, May one having possibility of reverter, whose right springs from a grantee’s act in discontinuing, for railway purposes, the right-of-way deeded by the reversioner’s ancestor, lawfully lay claim to a depot, outhouses, and stock pens placed upon such right-of-way .by the railway 'Company!

In 1886 those through whom appellees claim conveyed to appellants ’ predecessor a strip of land 100 feet wide, to be used “. . , for the construction, operation, maintenance, and use of a railroad over and through [the lands in question”]. There was this provision: ‘ ‘ To…