Ellis v. Mayor of Hazlehurst

This contest is between the City of Hazlehurst and a landowner over the width of Gill street. The landowner was proceeding to erect a fence on what he claimed to be the outer limits of his land abutting on Gill street, and the city filed a petition to enjoin the building of the.fence, which was alleged to encroach twenty feet on the street. The city submitted evidence tending to show the following: Gill street extends westward from Second avenue to the incorporate limits, crossing a branch. In 1898 W. 0. Swain owned a tract of land lying westward from the branch and reaching beyond the city…