Briel v. City of Natchez
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from, the chancery court of Adams county. Walker, Chancellor. On the 6th of June, 1871, “The city of Natchez,” as complainant, filed, in the chancery court of Adams county, her bill of complaint against the appellants, W. B. Briel and L. Heine, and also against H. H. Hamilton, J. Kennedy and others unnamed, as “ tenants and occupants of certain lands” therein mentioned.
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Appeal from, the chancery court of Adams county. Walker, Chancellor. On the 6th of June, 1871, “The city of Natchez,” as complainant, filed, in the chancery court of Adams county, her bill of complaint against the appellants, W. B. Briel and L. Heine, and also against H. H. Hamilton, J. Kennedy and others unnamed, as “ tenants and occupants of certain lands” therein mentioned. The bill alleges that, on the 9th of December, 1809, the city of Natchez was re-incorporated with the corporate name of “ The President and Selectmen of the city of Natchez,” and who were, by the act of reincorporation,…
1Opinion of the Court
Simrall, J.:
Was there a dedication of the extension of Wall and Canal streets and of Green street to the jrablic ? Green, the proprietor of the land over which the extension and the new streets was made, proposed to the city of Natchez to lay out these streets; the offer was formally accepted by the city. Afterwards Green sold and conveyed parcels of the property bounding the lots on the streets.
*435The difficulty of supporting a dedication of private property for public use grew out of technical requirements of the common law, and the restrictions of the statute of frauds in creating and…
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