Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. West End Heights Land Co.

The plaintiff, a land company, divided a tract of land, lying outside the city limits of Atlanta, into lots, made a plat thereof, and sold some of the lots. It sold two lots, which, ■according to the map, abutted on one of the platted streets, to a railroad company. Subsequently the land company sued the railroad company, and alleged that the defendant had, without the plaintiff’s consent, dug a deep cut in front of another adjacent lot owned by the plaintiff, in and along the street on which the lots abutted, thus entirely cutting off and destroying all ingress and egress to and from the lot…