Blumenthal v. State
Decision Date | 28 October 1898 |
Docket Number | 2,949 |
Citation | 51 N.E. 496,21 Ind.App. 665 |
Parties | BLUMENTHAL ET AL. v. THE STATE |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Rehearing denied March 7, 1899.
From the Lake Circuit Court.
Affirmed.
N. O Ross and G. E. Ross, for appellants.
W. A Ketcham, Attorney-General, Merrill Moores and T. S. Fancher, for State.
This cause was transferred to this court by the Supreme Court. Appellants were tried and convicted for obstructing a public highway. The only error assigned is the overruling of the motion for a new trial. A new trial was asked because the finding of the court was contrary to law and the evidence.
The highway in question lies within the right of way of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, and parallel to the track; and if a highway exists at the place in question, it was established by user.
It is argued by counsel that the land in controversy, having been appropriated for and used by the railway company for its right of way, cannot be appropriated, either directly or indirectly, for another and different use. But this question has been decided adversely to appellants in the case of Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Town of Crown Point, 150 Ind. 536, 50 N.E. 741. In that case the court said: ...
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