J. B. White's Garage, Inc. v. Town of Poplarville

Appellant filed suit in the circuit court of Pearl River county against the town of Poplarville and Sam B. Boyd, the contractor employed to improve the streets of said town and pave same. Appellant is a corporation, operating a filling station and showroom in the town of Poplarville on one of its streets, said filling station having been erected subsequent to 1920. Prior to that time the grade of the city streets had been made by a surveyor named Ball. The city had improved the street with a gravel coating whereby the center of the street was elevated above the sides of the street.

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