Wise v. Yazoo City
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Yazoo county. {How. Gr. G-arlaND Lyell, Chancellor. Wise, appellant, was complainant in the court- below; Yazoo City, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. Yazoo City, appellee, initiated statutory proceedings to condemn lands for tbe purpose shown in the opinion of the court; Wise, appellant, enjoined the proceedings, instituting this suit in equity for that purpose.
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From tbe chancery court of Yazoo county. {How. Gr. G-arlaND Lyell, Chancellor. Wise, appellant, was complainant in the court- below; Yazoo City, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. Yazoo City, appellee, initiated statutory proceedings to condemn lands for tbe purpose shown in the opinion of the court; Wise, appellant, enjoined the proceedings, instituting this suit in equity for that purpose. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court and section 20 of the city’s special charter, the construction of which…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
Oounsel have entered into an agreement as to the facts; therefore we deem it unnecessary to fully restate same. There is but one question in the case, in our view of it. Yazoo Oity is the owner of its waterworks, electric light, sewerage, and street railway systems, and in order to generate the power for operating these utilities it has a power house located not a great distance from the main track of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. In operating this plant through the power *516house, it becomes necessary for the city to purchase about four thousand five hundred tons of coal per…
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