St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Elmore

Appellees brought this suit to enjoin the appellant railway company from obstructing a road by means of which they had ingress and egress to and from certain lots owned by them and on which they resided. These lots adjoined the railroad right-of-way, and the road in question ran from appellees’ lots, across a portion of the railroad right-of-way, to' a street in the city of Magnolia.

The court found, from testimony which fully sustains the finding, that the plaintiffs themselves, for more than seven years, and their predecessors in title, for more than forty years, had used the railroad…