Byam v. Kansas City Public Service Co.

This action is ejectment, the answer a general denial, a denial of appellant's title and a plea of estoppel. There is no real dispute about the material facts, most of which are shown by public records. Many years before 1891 James D. Cusenbary became the owner of the southwest quarter of Section 33, Township 50, Range 32, in Jackson County, upon which he built his home. In 1891, Cusenbary conveyed to the Kansas City Independence Air Line Railroad and its successors, a railroad right of way running from about the center of the south line of this quarter section in a northwesterly direction…