Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Schalkopf

This was ejectment by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company to recover a part of lot 10, in block 5, of Mechanics’ Addition to the city of Lincoln. The answer consisted of a general, denial, and a plea of ten years of adverse possession of the property in the defendant and his grantors. In compliance with the provisions of the statute there were two trials of the cause in the court below, both of which resulted adversely to the plaintiff, and it has brought the record here for review.

It is alleged as a ground for reversal that the verdict is unsupported by the evidence. The…