Jones v. Van Bochove

In 1876 the Eagle Portland Cement Company was the owner of a body of land in the township of Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, upon which there was a marl bed. The marl bed and land were some distance *99'east of the-river road and of the Kalamazoo river. The company was at the same time operating a factory on the west side of the river, about three-fourths of a mile west of the marl beds, and at which factory the marl was manufactured into cement. In the above year, the company, being desirous of building a railroad from the beds to the factory, piirchased of George W. Winslow the right •of way…