Waycross Air-Line Railroad v. Southern Pine Co.

1. The Waycross Air-Line Railroad Company undertook to build a spur-track, extending from its main line to a point three or four miles distant therefrom, upon and across the land of the Southern Pine Company of Georgia, without consulting the latter and without resorting to condemnation proceedings to procure a right of way for such track. We by no means.intend to intimate that the railroad company could have procured a right of way, for the spur-track which it was seeking, to construct, by exercising the State’s power of eminent domain, but are merely stating the facts, which show that. its…