Dennis v. Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe City Court of Montgomery, in Equity. Heard before the! Hon. A. D. Sayre. The bill in this case was filed by J. M. Dennis against the Mobile! & Montgomery Railway Company and the I ouisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The particulars of the bill and the facts averred therein are sufficiently shown in the opinion.
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Appeal from tbe City Court of Montgomery, in Equity. Heard before the! Hon. A. D. Sayre. The bill in this case was filed by J. M. Dennis against the Mobile! & Montgomery Railway Company and the I ouisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The particulars of the bill and the facts averred therein are sufficiently shown in the opinion. The defendants filed throe plea.». By the first two of these pleas the respondent set up that complainant, was estonped from maintaining the present suit, and in the third plea the respondents set up that the construction of a freight, depot, across Lee street was…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
In April, 1896, the city council of Montgomery adopted an ordinance: embodying an agreement with the defendants wherein it was stipulated among other things, that the defendant the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company should erect a freight-station building not less than 535 feet long and two stories high on a strip of land which extended across what had to that time, been a part of Lee street at or near the north end of that street, and also to erect on the north side of the freight building and parallel therewith a passenger depot building; 309 feet in length, and to maintain a private…
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