Southern Ry. Co. v. Columbia Compress Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Action at law by the Southern Railway Company against the Columbia Compress Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, District Judge.
Several years prior to 1906, Southern Railway Company, plaintiff in error, leased to Columbia Compress Company, defendant in error, a lot of land comprising practically an entire city block in the industrial section of Columbia, S. C. The compress company proceeded to construct a plant, consisting of a cotton .compress, warehouses, platforms, etc., for the purpose of conducting a general cotton compressing and storage business. On one side of the leased premises were the tracks, of the Atlantic Coast Riñe Railroad Company; on the other, an industrial track of the…
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