Legal Opinion
McKinley v. Waterloo Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 22, 1985No. 84-536PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
The issues in this appeal are primarily two-fold: whether land condemned for use as a railway returns to the adjacent farm when the railway ceases to be operated for a given period, and whether land conveyed to a railway by deed with a “reverter” clause returns to the adjacent farm when it ceases to be used for railway purposes.
The Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Company (WCF & N) obtained a one-hundred foot strip of land from Hiawatha to Evansdale, Iowa, by a variety of methods involving condemnations and conveyances. On March 25, 1913, WCF & N acquired a strip…
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