St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, a Corporation v. Peter C. Walter, Betty Walter Allen, Jean Walter Davisson, and Daisy E. Walter

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

The issue is the ownership of a tract of land included in a grant to the predecessor of the Railroad and claimed by the appellees-plaintiffs (herein referred to collectively as the Walter Group) on the grounds that the grant was an easement, that the easement has terminated, and that they, as owners of the servient estate, hold the tract free of the easement. The Railroad contends that the easement has not terminated and that, if it has, the Railroad has title by adverse possession. Each party sought to quiet its title. The trial court entered an appropriate decree…