Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• following the “general rule ... that a railroad company acquires only an easement in a right of way by prescription .... [because] the nature of the user by the railroad requires no more than an easement in the right of way”
• following the \general rule ... that a railroad company acquires only an easement in a right of way by prescription .... [because] the nature of the user by the railroad requires no more than an easement in the right of way\
• “[T]he law is well settled that the intent to abandon may be shown by the acts of a party indicating such an intention.”
• \[T]he law is well settled that the intent to abandon may be shown by the acts of a party indicating such an intention.\
• abandonment found when service vacated, despite no appeal for any type of regulatory approval
• referring to a railroad as a “qwcm-public corporation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).