Pyron v. Blanscet

This is a suit in ejectment brought by the appellees to recover two small pieces of land. A jury trial resulted in a verdict and judgment awarding the possession of both tracts to the plaintiffs.

Only a question of law was presented below as to the first tract, which is the north half of a segment of a railroad right-of-way that was abandoned by the railroad company in 1936. At that time J. H. Jacobs owned land on both sides of the right-of-way. The land on the north side was later sold to the appellees, and that on the south was later sold to the appellants. Both deeds contain metes and…