Schlesinger v. Kansas City & Southern Railway

Citations

• 152 U.S. 444
• 14 S. Ct. 647
• 38 L. Ed. 507
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2134

Syllabus

<p>A condition in a grant of land to a railway company that the company shall construct a certain length of road within a given time, and on its failure . to do so, that the granted estate shall revert to the grantor, is a condition subsequent,» for breach of which the grantor m'ay enter upon the land and repossess himself of it; and, in case of his doing so, the land is not subject to attachment thereafter for debts of the company, contracted while the land was in its possession.</p>