Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Morgan

JACKSON, Vice Chief Justice:

In the trial court, plaintiffs (Morgan, et :al.) filed an action to quiet their title to a certain quarter section of land in Blaine County, Oklahoma, through which the defendant railroad company had a right of way. Plaintiffs alleged that they owned the fee simple title to the quarter section, subject only to the railroad company’s easement on a strip of land 100 feet wide. By answer and cross petition, the railroad company claimed the fee simple title to a strip of land 200 feet wide through the quarter section, and disclaimed any interest in the balance of the…