Guess v. Stone Mountain Granite & Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Streets. Railroads. Equity. Damages. Before Judge HlLLYER. DeKalb County. At Chambers. September 30th, 1881. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Sundry parties residing on Church street in Stone Mountain sued the defendant for damages in the use it made of the street as a railway track in excavating and embanking' thereon, thus rendering it well nigh useless, in running cars on it at irregular times and with an incompetent or rickety sort of engine, which scattered cinders, soot and smoke all over their yards and into their houses, decreasing greatly their value, and in thus making the business of the corporation a nuisance to all the neighborhood ; and all this under a charter to do private business, not in any…
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