Wilkins v. Chicago. St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County.— E. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
The case comes before us on hill and demurrer. The .allegations of the bill necessary to be noted are the following :
That the city of Memphis as originally laid out was ■the west part of the Rice grant, and its site appeared as .a town reserve on a plat attached to the deed of partition between the propietors of that grant, which was ;surveyed on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1820, as appears of record in the register’s office of Shelby county; .that the plat or map, as originally laid out in 1819, .showed between Bayou Gayoso on the north and Jackson street on the south an area or strip of…
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