Carmody v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

Citations

• 111 Ill. 69

Syllabus

<p>1. Limitation — of twenty years1 adverse possession. Where the party under whom a plaintiff in ejectment claimed land occupied by a railway company, made a conveyance of the same to a railway company, moved his fence, and gave it possession of the land more than twenty years before suit brought, and such company, together with the defendant corporation, as its successor, had occupied the same ever since under such release, it was held, that the plaintiff could not recover.</p> <p>2. Railroad — right to acquire more than one hundred feet. A charter giving a railroad company a right to acquire a strip of land not exceeding one hundred feet in width, has reference to right of way for a single or double track, and does not prohibit it from acquiring more land for depot grounds and side-tracks at stations.</p>