Texas & Pac. Ry. Co. v. Burch

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a possessory action. The railway company is asking to be maintained in possession of its right of way on the south side of its main line and in the vicinity of its station at a place called Grand Bayou, in Red River Parish. The railway company claims that its right of way is 200 feet wide, having a width of 100 feet on each side of the center of its track. The defendant claims that the right of way extends only 50 feet on each side of the center of the track; and he claims a tax title to a part of the land extending from the distance of 50 feet to the distance…