Burrus v. City of Columbus
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Butt. Muscogee county. March 7, 1898. ■ The petition of certain citizens of Columbus against the city, the Empire Mills Company, and the Central of Georgia Railway Company, for injunction against the laying of a railroad-track in the streets of the city, extending from what was formerly the Mobile & Girard Railroad to the premises of the „ Empire Mills Company, alleged that the streets of the city were •dedicated to the public use when…
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Petition for injunction. Before Judge Butt. Muscogee county. March 7, 1898. ■ The petition of certain citizens of Columbus against the city, the Empire Mills Company, and the Central of Georgia Railway Company, for injunction against the laying of a railroad-track in the streets of the city, extending from what was formerly the Mobile & Girard Railroad to the premises of the „ Empire Mills Company, alleged that the streets of the city were •dedicated to the public use when the city was laid out and incorporated by the State; that the railroad running through the •city, formerly known as the…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
At the trial the case was heard by the court upon the petition, demurrers, answers, and the evidence. Each, of the several defendants having in its answer denied the charges of combination and confederacy, and no evidence being offered in support of the same, the Empire Mills Co. having in its answer denied that it intended to lay the side-track in question and the plaintiffs offering no evidence to substantiate this charge, and the Central of Georgia Railway Co. having admitted that it intended to build this track, and that at the time of the service of the temporary restraining order it had…
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