Case ID: ind_49/html/0296-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Downey, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sharpe et al. v. The St. Louis and South-Eastern R. W. Co.
    
      Street.—Railroad.—Action to Recover Real Property.—An action for the recovery of the possession of real estate may be maintained against a railroad company occupying such real estate, being a street in a city, by virtue of a grant from the city council.
    From the Spencer Circuit Court.
    
      J. 8. Buchanan, H. C. Gooding, and O. Buehcmcm, for appellants.
    
      A. Iglehart and J. E. Iglehart, for appellee.
   Downey, J.

This was an action by the appellants against the appellee, to recover the possession of certain real estate in the city of Evansville. The action was commenced in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, from which the venue was changed to the Spencer Circuit Court. The complaint is in three paragraphs. The defendant answered in two paragraphs, setting up a claim to the right to occupy the real estate, it being a street in the city, by virtue of a grant from the city council. A demurrer to each of the paragraphs of answer was filed by the plaintiff, and overruled by the court. There was judgment for the defendant.

The overruling of the demurrers to the paragraphs of the answer is the error assigned. According to the principles recognized and applied in Cox v. The Louisville, etc., R. R. Co., 48 Ind. 178, this ruling was wrong.

The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded, with instructions to sustain the demurrer to the paragraphs of the answer, and for further proceedings.