Elkhart & Western Railroad v. Waldorf

In the spring of 1893 the appellee was the owner of two certain adjoining tracts of land containing one and - one-half, and ten acres, respectively, and the appellant, desiring to construct its railroad over said land bought the same and received a deed containing the'following clauses:

“Said grantor reserves the right to possession of the entire tract of land, above described, for a period of one year from the date hereof, except a right of way sixty-six feet wide across the first above described tract of land. Also the right of possession for a period of two years, from the date hereof, to…