Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Kennedy

On July 26, 1926, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, appellee, filed a bill in the circuit court of DeKalb county to quiet title to a strip of land claimed by virtue of possession under the recorded plat of the original town of DeKalb. A.G. Kennedy, the owner of lot 4 adjoining, who was made defendant, filed an answer, setting up various insufficiencies in the plat and denying that appellee acquired any title thereunder. Kennedy also filed a cross-bill, alleging that he was the owner of the strip by virtue of mesne conveyances, also by adverse possession for more than twenty years,…