Kelsoe v. Town of Oglethorpe

Mrs. M. M. Kelsoe instituted an equitable proceeding against the Town of Oglethorpe, to enjoin the defendant from opening and improving certain streets over land to which she claimed the absolute title. The defendant denied that the plaintiff had title to the land over which the municipal authorities had undertaken to lay out these streets; and alleged, that in 1849 Judge E. G. Cabaniss, who was then the owner of the land claimed by the plaintiff, as well as of the land now occupied by the town of Oglethorpe, made a plan and map dividing his land into squares, streets, and alleys, that lots…