San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Knoepfli

COLLARD, Judge,

Section A.—This suit was brought by the appellee against the appellant railway company to recover 64 acres of land belonging to plaintiff, and for damages. The land was considerably longer than it was wide, and had about thirty or thirty-five acres inclosed in a farm. Defendant in constructing its road built the roadbed lengthwise through the survey,' and appropriated for a right of way a strip 100 feet wide, or five acres of the land. The persons building the road entered the farm on the north, tore down plaintiff’s fence, and left an opening there into his farm from the 24th…