Port Royal Railroad v. Hammond
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Specific Performance. Jurisdiction. Corporations. Contracts. Before Judge Gibson. Bichmond Superior Court. April Term, 1876. Beported in tbe decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
It appeal’s from the abstract of the record in this case, that the Port Boyal Bailroad Company was incorporated by the state of South Carolina, December 21, 1857, and its charter points out the method of assessing damages for the right of way.
This South Carolina corporation was incorporated by act of the legislature of Georgia, December 19, 1859.
By act of September 22, 1868, the legislature of South Carolina passed a general law granting rights of way to railroads, section 7 of which act provides that whenever the same are abandoned, the soil reverts to the original…
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