Cannco Contractors, Inc. v. Livingston

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This suit concerns two deeds executed by W. G. Streett and his wife, Woodie, to the Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railway Company, and its successors and assigns. The company was succeeded by the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Both instruments were for land which adjoined the railroad in Lake Village, Arkansas. The first deed was styled “Deed for Right-of-Way”andwas executed in 1902. It provided that the right-of-way was for so long “as used for the purposes of a railroad and no longer.” A year later an instrument entitled “Deed” was executed conveying another…