Illinois Central Railroad v. Hasenwinkle

The Illinois Central Railroad Company, the appellant, brought this action of ejectment in the circuit court of McLean county against William Hasenwinkle, appellee, to recover possession of a strip of land fifty feet in width lying west of its railroad and claimed by it as a part of its right of way through out-lots 72 and 73 of the village of Hudson. The defendant pleaded not guilty and the twenty years Statute of Limitations as to that part of the strip in out-lot 72 and disclaimed as to the remainder. A jury having been waived there was a trial by the court, 'which resulted in ,a finding…