Voight v. Southern Pacific Co.

The facts upon which the trial court rendered its decision were stipulated and may be summarized as follows: In 1896 a survey was made, right of way acquired, and a' railroad constructed by defendant Southern Pacific Company’s predecessor from Anaheim to Los Alamitos, passing through what is now known as Stanton, California. Included in the right of way on which the railroad was constructed was a strip of land described in plaintiffs’ complaint, lying southerly of their property. The right of way lying immediately southerly of plaintiffs’ property was in a natural depression in the earth’s…