WHITING, Justice.
The sole issue here is whether a prescriptive right-of-way can be acquired over a public utility's property, which property is being used for a public purpose.
On March 1, 1851, William B. Potts and Charity S. Potts, his wife, conveyed a strip of land running generally east and west across their farm (the Potts-Stanfield farm) to the South Side Railroad Company (South Side) for the construction and operation of a railroad. Because the strip...
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