Hoke v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Railroads. Eminent domain. Constitutional law. Statutes. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarice. Eulton county. At chambers, January 30, 1892. . On the petition of the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company against R. E. Hoke and others (who, it was alleged, claimed to be a corporation under the name of the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Company), and against the ordinary of Eulton county and one Plouston, the judge granted an injunction restraining the defendants,…
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Injunction. Railroads. Eminent domain. Constitutional law. Statutes. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarice. Eulton county. At chambers, January 30, 1892. . On the petition of the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company against R. E. Hoke and others (who, it was alleged, claimed to be a corporation under the name of the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Company), and against the ordinary of Eulton county and one Plouston, the judge granted an injunction restraining the defendants, until further order, from proceeding to condemn for railroad purposes a strip of land twenty-four feet wide, and about a…
1Opinion of the Court
*215 Judgment affirmed.
Hoice Smith and Erwin & Cobb, for plaintiff in error,
cited, on constitutionality of charter, 1 Bl. Com. 44, 472-3; 15 S. W. Rep. 364; 84 Ga. 725, 804-812 ; 87 Ga. 444, 487, 533 ; 74 Ga. 509, 658; 20 Atl. Rep. 194 ; 58 Md. 603 ; 71 Ga. 484; 76 Ga. 766, 826; 83 Ga. 61, 270, 465 ; 73 Ga. 40 ; 70 Ga. 585 ; 52 Ga. 410 ; 44 Ga. 77, 465 ; 38 Ga. 355 ; 16 Ga. 105 ; 14 Ga. 83; 13 Ga. 83 ; Code, §§5027, 5077. On eminent domain, Code, §§2222, 2223, 5095 ; 9 Ga. 517 ; 6 How. 507; 3 Ga. 338; 42 Ga. 501; Beach, Rwys. §§797, 798; 35 Mich. 265; 62 Id. 564; 83 N. C. 489 ; 16 Phil. Rep. 637;…
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