Wood v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Injunction. State. Railroads. Sales. Corporations. Cemeteries. Municipal Corporations. Eminent Domain. Before Judge SlMMONS. Bibb County. At Chambers.
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Equity. Injunction. State. Railroads. Sales. Corporations. Cemeteries. Municipal Corporations. Eminent Domain. Before Judge SlMMONS. Bibb County. At Chambers. December 10th, 1881. This bill was filed by Wood et al. against the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, and against the Mayor and Council of the city of Macon, alleging an agreement between the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company and the city of Macon to run the line of said railroad company through Rose Hill Cemetery and the grounds thereof, which had long before been…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The powers of chancery are invoked in this case to enjoin the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, in the hands of its present management, from extending its track from Macon to Atlanta through Rose Hill cemetery, in the former city. The injunction was denied by the chancellor, and complainants, who are private owners of certain lots in the cemetery, except to that judgment and assign it for error in this court.
1. They say that the present company have no title to *545the road because the governor did not comply with the terms of sale prescribed by the general assembly,…
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