Puyper v. Pure Oil Co.

E. J. Puyper and others, complainants, filed their bill of complaint in the chancery court of Pearl River County against the Pure Oil Company, the City of Picayune and the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company, as defendants, seeking to enjoin the Pure Oil Company and the City of Picayune from closing or obstructing a short section of a street in the City of Picayune, which constituted a part of Old U. S. Highway No. 11, and to recover damages alleged to have been sustáined by the complainants as a result of the wrongful closing of the street by the governing authorities of the…