Yazoo & M. v. R. Co. v. Hughes

This appeal was prosecuted from a decree overruling. the demurrer of the appellant, the Yazoo &• Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, defendant in the court below, to the original bill of the appellee, Mrs. Hughes, and appeal was granted to settle the principles of the cause.

The facts set out in the bill, material to a decision of this cause, are about as follows:

That complainant, Mrs. Hughes, then Mrs. Beck, on or about the 26th day of April, 1888, owned a tract of land in Warren county, west of the right of way of the railroad, company and north of Glass bayou. Glass bayou, adjacent to the…