Rock Island & Peoria Railway Co. v. Dimick

In 1870, appellee executed his deed to the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad Company, conveying a right of way for its railroad across his lands, for the expressed consideration of $300. At the time of the execution of the deed, the railroad had been graded through appellee’s land, and two openings left in the embankment for said road built on said land. The one designated the north passage-way was at a slough, and was fifty to sixty feet long, and which would be spanned with a bridge or trestle work. Practically a thousand feet south of that one was another opening, near the south line of…