Legal Opinion

Union Railway Co. v. Hunton

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1905PublishedCited by 24 opinions

PROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County. —J. P. Young, Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil

This was a condemnation suit brought by the Union Railway Company on the 25th of May, 1903, against the defendants, Mrs. E. M. Hunton and S. M. Wright, for the purpose of condemning a right of way two hundred feet in width across the property of the defendant Mrs. Hunton, fully described in the petition.

The defendant S. M. Wright was a lessee, having a lease upon the property executed April 29, 1903, for a period of ten years from May 1,1903, to May 1, 1913, at a rental of $500 per year. According to the terms of this lease the tenant was to keep do wn taxes, and to turn over to the landlord…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Montana Railway Co. v. WarrenSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co. v. ClarkSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
  3. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. PritchettSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1898
  4. Insurance Cos. v. ScalesTennessee Supreme Court · 1899
  5. Weeks v. McNultyTennessee Supreme Court · 1898

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Hughes v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Blackburn v. MurphyTennessee Supreme Court · 1987
  3. Mason v. City of NashvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1927
  4. Holder v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1907
  5. Maryville Housing Authority v. RamseyCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1972

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