Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Griffin

The complaint in this case charges that the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company was “ possessed” of a certain piece of ground lying in the western part of the city of Mount Vernon,’ which was uninclosed and which was traversed by a foot-path leading from the public *222street to a house situate on another piece of uninclosed ground adjoining it, and which was also in the possession of the railroad company. The complaint then avers, “ that there was no public street, alley or way leading from the-streets and alleys of said city to said house, and that the said path was the usual way of…