Bravard v. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad

This was in form an ordinary action by Benjamin D. Bravard against the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad Company to recover the possession of a strip of ground appropriated and used by the company as a part of its right of way and line of road.

The circuit court tried the cause without a jury, and the finding and judgment were for the defendant.

It was shown by the evidence that the plaintiff below, and the appellant here, was the owner by devise from his father, Lewis Bravard, of the tract of land of which the strip in controversy constitutes a part; that the said Lewis Bravard…