South Memphis Land Co. v. City of Memphis

We will adopt the statement of the case substantially as set out in the brief of the complainant.

This cause is one brought by the South Memphis Land Company, a corporation, to recover from the city of Memphis the value of certain sewers, which the bill alleges and charges were wrongfully appropriated and converted to the use of the city of Memphis, together with interest on such value since said conversion and appropriation.

The bill recites that the complainant is a corporation, owning a large tract of land in the southern part of the city of Memphis, according to the boundaries of the city,…