Legal Opinion

Cherry v. North & South Railroad

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Lien. Railroads. Actions. Service. Before JAMES T. WlLLIS, Esq., Judge pro hac vice. Harris Superior Court. October Term, 1879. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Hawicins, Justice.

On the tenth day of March, 1879, W. C. Cherry, for the use of another, commenced an action in the superior court, of Harris county, on the common law side of the court, for equitable relief, and to enforce and forclose a contractor’s lien dated and recorded in the superior court on the fifteenth day of January, 1874, against the North and South Railroad Company, a corporation chartered by the legislature of the state in 1870.

The petition alleged that he was a railroad contractor, and under contract with said corporation, built a trestle or an extension of a certain bridge…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Stallings v. StallingsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
  2. McClendon & Co. v. Hernando Phosphate Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1897
  3. Bridger v. Exchange BankSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
  4. Oglethorpe Savings & Trust Co. v. MorganSupreme Court of Georgia · 1920
  5. Franek v. RaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1977

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