East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. Boardman

Lumpkin, Justice.

An action for damages was brought by Julia Board-man against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company. The court overruled a demurrer to *357the plaintiff’s declaration, and the defendant excepted. The case made by the declaration was, in brief, substantially as follows: In the year 1854, Doane and Johnson owned a lot of land in Fulton county. They surveyed and platted this land into blocks, subdividing the blocks into lots, and leaving streets and alleys around each block. This plat was generally known and called “the Doane and Johnson survey.” In the year above…