Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Odeneal
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Ci-irisman, Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. This was an action brought by the appellee, as owner of the Sligo stock farm, for the penalty of $250, for which the appellant was alleged to have become liable to her under §3561, code of 1892, by reason of its failure to make and maintain a suitable crossing over its track for the necessary plantation road indicated in her declaration.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Ci-irisman, Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. This was an action brought by the appellee, as owner of the Sligo stock farm, for the penalty of $250, for which the appellant was alleged to have become liable to her under §3561, code of 1892, by reason of its failure to make and maintain a suitable crossing over its track for the necessary plantation road indicated in her declaration. It was admitted on the trial that the appellant railway company was organized in 1889, under the general statute of 1882, by…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad Company became the purchasers of the property and franchises of the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Company, under foreclosure sale ordered by the federal court, in 1889, and reorganized under the provisions of the act of the legislature of this state, approved March 9, 1882 (Laws 1882, p. 17). The act of March 13, 1881, relative to farm crossings, was then in force, and was therefore integrated into its charter upon organization, and under said *40laws as a part thereof, and appellant has, therefore, no standing to question the constitutionality of the legislative…
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