Legal Opinion
Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Lewellen
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 19, 1997No. 54S01-9706-CV-368PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SULLIVAN, Justice.
This case is one of a number of Indiana lawsuits raising issues related to the ownership and use of parcels of land formerly constituting railroad rights-of-way. Here we agree with the trial court and Court of Appeals that the parcels in question are now owned by the owners of the land adjacent to the former right-of-way.
Background
We will briefly explain the background of this ease; for a fuller discussion of the facts, see the Court of Appeals opinion in Consolidated Rail Corporation, Inc. v. Lewellen, 666 N.E.2d 958 (Ind.Ct.App.1996).
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